Deborah Ager

American poet, essayist, and editor

Deborah Ager

Born	Bethesda, Maryland, US
Occupation	Poet
Website
www.radiantmedialabs.com

Deborah Ager is an American poet, essayist, and editor.

Life

Deborah Ager founded the poetry magazine known as 32 poems or 32 Poems Magazine in 2003 with the poet John Poch.^[1] She was educated at the University of Maryland (B.A.) and the University of Florida (M.F.A.).

She has published three books. She co-edited the anthologies Old Flame: 10 Years of 32 Poems Magazine (2012) with John Poch and Bill Beverly and The Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry (2013) with M. E. Silverman.

Her writing has appeared in New England Review, The Georgia Review, Birmingham Poetry Review, Los Angeles Review, North American Review, and Best New Poets 2006. Her manuscript Midnight Voices was a semifinalist for the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize in 2007 before being accepted for publication by Cherry Grove Collections.

Ager is also an essayist, with nonfiction writing published in Narratively, The Week, and Modern Loss.

Honors and awards

Scholarship, West Chester Poetry Conference, 2011
Fellowship, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
Walter E. Dakin Fellowship, Sewanee Writers’ Conference
Fellowship, Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, 2009
Tennessee Williams scholar, Sewanee Writers' Conference
Fellowship, MacDowell Colony

Books

Deborah Ager; M. E. Silverman, eds. (September 26, 2013). The Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 978-1-4411-8879-3. Retrieved July 15, 2013.
Deborah Ager; Bill Beverly; John Poch, eds. (January 10, 2013). Old Flame: From the First 10 Years of 32 Poems Magazine. WordFarm. ISBN 978-1-60226-013-9. Retrieved July 15, 2013.
Midnight Voices. WordTech Communications LLC. March 1, 2009. ISBN 978-1-934999-42-4. Retrieved July 15, 2013.

Works

"The Lights and Lessons of Toro Nagashi, the Japanese Candle Boat Ceremony," Modern Loss, 2018.
From the Fishouse, May 2011
"The Problem With Describing Men"
"Mangos", Delaware Poetry Review, March 2003
"The Lake", Connecticut Review, 2002
"Night in Iowa", Georgia Review, 2000
"Night: San Francisco", New England Review, 2002
"Santa Fe In Winter", New England Review, 2002
"The Space Coast", American Literary Review, 2002

Personal life

Ager is married to the writer Bill Beverly.^[2]

References

^ "Deborah Ager". deborahager.com. Archived from the original on September 18, 2017. Retrieved May 28, 2015.
^ "Bill Beverly". noexit.co.uk. Archived from the original on January 1, 2020. Retrieved April 9, 2023.