Sharmila Voorakkara
Assistant Professor
Creative Writing: Poetry
Office: Ellis 372
Office Phone: 593-2783
Email: voorakka@ohio.edu
Degrees
B.A., New York University, 1989
M.F.A., University of Virginia, 2003
Publications
Fire Wheel (winner of Akron Poetry Prize, 2003)
Poems forthcoming in:
Virginia Quarterly Review
Prairie Schooner
Pleiades
Ninth Letter
Painted Bride Quarterly
Work has appeared in:
Cumberland Poetry Review
Ploughshares Emerging Writers issue Winter 2004
Curriculum Vitae
James C. and Ruth Hall Poetry Fellow at the University of Wisconsin Center for Writers, Madison 2003-2004
Classes taught:
Beginning, Intermediate and Graduate Poetry workshops
American Authors: Emily Dickinson
Graduate Form and Theory: The Lyric
Undergraduate Form and Theory
Awards/Honors:
Akron Poetry Prize, 2003 for first collection, “Fire Wheel”;
Barbara Deming Money for Women Fund, individual artist grant, 2001
Courses
ENG 465 American Authors
ENG 362 Beginning Poetry Workshop
ENG 394 Intermediate Poetry Workshop
Graduate Poetry Seminar
Graduate Form and Theory of Poetry