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Author's Note
Elisavietta Ritchie's prose, poetry, photographs, translations are widely
published, translated, and anthologized in the United States and abroad.
Credits include The New York Times, The Washington Post, Poetry,
American Scholar, The Christian Science Monitor, JAMA: Journal of
the American Medical Association, Canadian Woman Studies, Confrontation,
Potomac Review, and numerous other publications.
Tightening the Circle Over Eel Country won the Great Lakes Colleges
Association's "New Writer's Award, 1975-1976." Individual poems and
stories won awards from the Poetry Society of America, National Endowment
for the Arts, The Ledge, Bright Hill Press, and others. Several
were nominated for the Pushcart Prize.
Ritchie writes, translates, edits, gives readings, workshops, serves as poetin-
the- schools, and helps writers of various ages. She was long active
with the Washington Writers' Publishing House, where, after winning
annual awards for a book of poetry and later of fiction, she served first
as president of the poetry then the fiction division. She also created The
Wineberry Press to publish others' manuscripts too unconventional for
regular presses.
She traveled to several continents independently and as a Visiting Overseas
Speaker for the United States Information Service. Her most recent
collection from Poets' Choice Publishers is Reflections: Poems on Paintings,
A Poet's Gallery; readings of these poems can be accompanied
with the paintings (most of which are at The National Gallery) which
inspired them on PowerPoint.
Ritchie has been nurturing poets, painters, musicians and wildlife, and
writing on the shores of the Patuxent River, Maryland, the Potomac,
Washington DC, and rivers and seacoasts of Cyprus, Malaysia, the
Balkans, Australia, Canada and briefly, the USSR and the African continent.
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