Tess Gallagher, Cohen Award
The 1992 Denise and Mel Cohen Awards
for the outstanding poem, short story, and nonfiction published in Ploughshares Volume 17
Each of these awards carries a prize of $400 and is made possible through the generosity of Denise and Mel Cohen of New Orleans. The Cohen Awards are nominated and judged by the advisory and staff editors of Ploughshares.
Best Poem (co-winner):
"from The Valentine Elegies"
Vol. 17/1, edited by M. L. Rosenthal
Tess Gallagher was born in Port Angeles, Washington, where she now lives. Her most recent books of poetry are Moon Crossing Bridge, from Graywolf Press (1992), and Portable Kisses, from Graywolf Press (1992). She is also the author of a book of short stories, The Lover of Horses, reissued this year by Graywolf Press, and a collection of essays, A Concert of Tenses, from the University of Michigan Press. Other books of poetry include Amplitude: New and Selected Poems, Willingly, Under Stars, and Instructions to the Double, all published by Graywolf. Ms. Gallagher co-authored two screenplays Dostoevsky and Purple Lake, with her late husband, Raymond Carver, and wrote the introductions to A New Path to the Waterfall, Carver's last book of poems, and to Carver Country, a volume of photographs by Bob Adelman which documents his life and work.