Doug Anderson

Doug Anderson’s book of poems, The Moon Reflected Fire (Alice James Books) won the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and Blues for Unemployed Secret Police (Curbstone Books) received a grant from the Academy of American Poets. His other works include: a play, Short Timers; a memoir, Keep Your Head Down, Vietnam, the Sixties and a Journey of Self-Discovery (W.W. Norton, 2009); a book of poems, Horse Medicine (Barrow Street, 2015). His latest book is Undress, She Said (Four Way Books, 2022). His writing has appeared in The Massachusetts Review, Poetry, Ploughshares, the Virginia Quarterly Review, the Southern Review, Field, and other publications. He has written critical articles for the New York Times Book Review, The London Times Literary Supplement, and the Boston Globe. He has received fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, Poets & Writers, and other funding agencies. He has taught at Emerson and Smith Colleges, the University of Massachusetts, and the MFA programs at Pacific University of Oregon and Bennington College. He is an affiliate of the Joiner Center for the Study of War and its Social Consequences at UMASS Boston.