Sidney Wade

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Sidney Wade (born 1951)^{[citation needed]} is an American poet. She held the position of professor of creative writing at the University of Florida, where she taught from 1993^{[citation needed]} through April 2016.

Early life and education

Wade was born in Englewood, New Jersey, in 1951. She attended the University of Vermont, receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy in 1974 and an M.Ed. in counseling in 1978. She earned a Ph.D in English from the University of Houston in 1994.

Career

Wade decided she wanted to write after reading Willa Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop, and has published multiple poetry collections, including Celestial Bodies, Green, From Istanbul/Istanbul'dan (1998), and Empty Sleeves (1990). Istanbul'dan/From Istanbul was published in Turkish and English by Yapi Kredi Publications.^{[citation needed]} Stroke was published by Persea Books, as was Straits and Narrows. Atelier26 Books publisher her 2017 collection, Bird Book, and Johns Hopkins University published her 2020 collection, Deep Gossip.

Her poems have also appeared in The New Republic, The New Yorker, Poetry Magazine,^{[citation needed]} Southern Review, and other publications.^{[citation needed]} She co-translated a selection from the poems of Melih Cevdet Anday together with Efe Murad under the title Silent Stones: Selected Poems of Melih Cevdet Anday. The translation received the 2014 Meral Divitçi [tr] Prize. Some of these translations also appeared in literary journals such as The American Reader, Asymptote, Five Points, Critical Flame, Denver Quarterly,^{[citation needed]} Guernica, The Kenyon Review Turkish Poetry Today, Poet Lore, and Two Lines.^{[citation needed]}

Wade received a Fulbright Fellowship and was a senior lecturer at Istanbul University from 1989–1990.^{[citation needed]} She was awarded the Stanley P. Young Fellowship from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in 1994.^{[citation needed]} Wade was the president of the Association of Writers & Writing Programs in 2006 and 2007.

She served as the judge for the BkMk Press John Ciardi Prize for Poetry in 2009. Wade also served as faculty for the 26th through 30th Sewanee Writers' Conferences.

Personal life

Wade lives in Gainesville, Florida. She has two children with ex-husband Padgett Powell.

Works

• Empty Sleeves. University of Georgia Press. 1991. ISBN 978-082031-278-1.
• From Istanbul/Istanbul'dan. Istanbul: Yapi Kredi Yayinlar. 1998. ISBN 975-363-964-3.
• Green. University of South Carolina Press. 1998. ISBN 978-157003-267-7.
• Celestial Bodies. Louisiana State University Press. 2002. ISBN 978-080712-824-4.
• Stroke. New York: Persea Books. 2008. ISBN 978-0-89255-337-2. LCCN 2007038375.
• Straits & Narrows. New York: Persea Books. 2013. ISBN 978-0-89255-425-6.
• Bird Book. Atelier26 Books. 2017. ISBN 978-0-99765-233-8.
• Deep Gossip. Johns Hopkins University Press. 2020. ISBN 978-142143-788-0.

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External links

• Official website
• Profile from Verse Daily Archived 2025-01-21 at the Wayback Machine