CONSTANCE STUDER

Dates at Hedgebrook
January-March 1992 (Cedar Cottage) 

Genres
Poetry, Creative Non-Fiction, Fiction, Medical/Activism

Publications and Productions

• "Dear Dr. Williams, Dear Poet," "Hawk, Winter,"
  "Higher Learning," "Rose" (four poems with
  accompanying essays on the creative process), The
  Poetry of Nursing, Judy Schaefer, Editor, (anthology)
  Kent State University Press. (January, 2006).
• "Holy Socks," (creative non-fiction essay), North
  Dakota Quarterly. (January, 2006).
• "Solo," (creative non-fiction essay) The Mochila
  Review, Vol. 7. (2005).
• "Holy Socks," (creative non-fiction essay) Sanskrit
  Literary-Arts Magazine, Vol. 36. (2005).
• Prayer To A Purple God, Constance Studer, Mellen
  Poetry Press, 1996 and re-issued in hardback in 2004.
• "Georgia Summer: The Weight of Peaches," (poem)
  Cumberland Poetry Review, Vol. XXIII, No. 2. (Spring,
  2004).
• "Georgia Summer: The Weight of Peaches," (poem)
  Carquinez Poetry Review, Vol. 2, Issue 2. (2004).
• "Day Ten: Raft Headed To Open Sea," (poem) Eclipse: A
  Literary Journal, Vol. 15. (Fall, 2004).
• "The Isolation Room," (short story) Crucible (40th
  Anniversary Issue), Vol. 40. (Fall, 2004).
• "I Knew A Woman," (book review: book by Cortney Davis)
  Prairie Schooner, Vol. 78, No. 1. (Spring, 2004).
• "Mercy," (short story) Intensive Care: More Poetry and
  Prose by Nurses, Cortney Davis and Judy Schaefer,
  Editors, (anthology) U. of Iowa Press. (2003).
• "Think Beauty," (short story) Westview: A Journal of
  Western Oklahoma, Vol. 23, No. 1. (Fall/Winter, 2003).
• "Heart Shift," "Winter Light," (poems) The Minnesota
  Review: A Journal of Committed Writing, N.S, 58-60.
  (Fall, 2003).
• "I Knew A Woman," (book review: book by Cortney Davis)
  Calyx: A Journal of Art and Literature By Women, Vol.
  21, No. 2. (Summer, 2003).
• "Body Language," (essay) American Journal of Nursing,
  Vol. 102, No. 1. (January, 2002).
• The Age of Koestler, (anthology), 3 translations of
  Dutch poems, Practices of the Wind Press. (1994.)
• "Shades of Truth," (poem), We Speak For Peace, Ruth
  Harriet Jacobs, Editor, (anthology) Knowledge, Ideas
  and Trends (KIT). (1993).
• "Frida Kahlo: What the Water Gave Me," (poem) Sing
  Heavenly Muse!:Women's Poetry and Prose, Issue No. 20,
  Women Working. (1992).
• "Dear Dr. Williams, Dear Poet," (poem) Zone 3, Vol.
  VI. (Winter, 1991.)
• "Breakdown: Ohio Route 163," "Independence Day," "What
  The Body Remembers," (poems), Birmingham Poetry
  Review, No. 7. (Fall/Winter, 1991).
• "Song of Healing, Song of the Sea," "Sirens Rise Like
  Blood Inside the Heart," "Dear Dr. Williams, Dear
  Poet," (poems), and "Transcendance: Thoughts on
  (Dis)-Ability" (essay), Kaleidoscope: International
  Magazine of Literature, Fine Arts, and Disability, No.
  21. (Summer/Fall, 1990).
• "Behind the Eyes," (poem), Prairie Smoke: The Pueblo
  Poetry Project 1979-1989, Tony Moffeitt, Editor,
  (anthology) University of Southern Colorado Press.
  (1990).
• "The Pair of Twins" - (Dutch translation) Poetry East.
  (1990).
• "The Waiting Room," (poem), Kaleidoscope:
  International Magazine of Literature, Fine Arts, and
  Disability, No. 20. (Winter/Spring, 1990).
• "Testament," (short story) Ascent, (1990).
• "Insomnia," (poem), The Eleventh Muse, Vol. 9, No. 2.
  (Fall, 1990 - won first place in Poetry West Contest;
  nominated for a Pushcart Prize).
• "Transcendence: Thoughts on (Dis) Ability," (essay),
  Kaleidoscope, 1990.
• "Systole/Diastole," (poem), Paris/Atlantic,
  International Magazine of Poetry, American University
  of Paris, No. 7. (Fall, 1990).
• "Solar Eclipse," "Sleeping Alone," "To Hunt, To Become
  A Deer," (poems), Calapooya Collage. (August, 1990).
• "Emergency Room: A Fugue For Two Voices," Balance: The
  Lifestyle Magazine for Women Physicians. (July/August,
  1990).
• "The Small Head Damp Against My Chest," (poem), High
  Plains Literary Review. (August, 1989).
• "Same Flesh, Same Bone" (poem), Cream City Review,
  University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. (1989).
• "Dark Circles," "The Lines Of The Hand," "Bondage,"
  "Covenant," "Glass Eye," "Called Real," "Coma,"
  (poems), Newsletter Inago, Vol. 8, No. 7. (July,
  1988).
• "Frida Kahlo: What The Water Gave Me," (poem), Earth's
  Daughters: A Feminist Arts Periodical, No. 31/32.
  (1988).
• "Climbing," (poem), Kaleidoscope: International
  Magazine of Literature, Fine Arts, and Disability, No.
  17. (Summer/Fall, 1988).
• "Wooden Leg," (poem), Kaleidoscope: International
  Magazine of Literature, Fine Arts, and Disability, No.
  (Winter/Spring, 1988).
• "Prayer To A Purple God," "The Touch of Hands,"
  (poems), Kaleidoscope: International Magazine of
  Literature, Fine Arts, and Disability, No. 14.
  (Winter/Spring, 1987).
• "Bells," (short story) Phoenix , (1987).
• "After the Fire," (poem), The Eleventh Muse, Vol. 6,
  No. 1. (Fall, 1987).
• "The Patient's Revenge," (poem) Mediphors: A Literary
  Journal for the Health Professions, No. 12.
  (Fall/Winter, 1998).
• "Systole/Diastole," (poem), Embers, Vol. XI, No. 2.
  (won first prize in their contest Fall/Winter, 1987).
• "Dark Circles," (poem), Wingbone: Poetry From
  Colorado, Janice Hays and Pamela Haines, Editors,
  (anthology), Sudden Jungle Press. (1987).
• "The Lines Of The Hand," (poem), The Devil's
  Millhopper. (Winter, 1987).
• "Bondage," (poem), The Connecticut Writer, Vol. 12.
  (1987).
• "Return Trip" (Dutch translation)
  Visions-International, No. 24. (1987).
• "Fidelis," (poem), The Bloomsbury Review, Vol. 7/Issue
  4. (July/August, 1987).
• "Labor," (poem), The Eleventh Muse, Vol. 5, No. 1.
  (1986).
• "Reflection," "Suspension" (poems), Toward Solomon's
  Mountain: The Experience of Disability in Poetry,
  Joseph L. Baird and Deborah S. Workman, Editors,
  (anthology) Temple University Press. (1986).
• "Pieta," (poem), The Sun: A Magazine of Ideas, Issue
  111. (February, 1985).
• "Amsterdam, 1965," (poem), Embers, Vol. XI, No. 1.
  (1985).
• "Last Ditch Manifesto," "Seed," "Called Real,"
  "Sleep," "Lady With the Dulcimer," "Post Coitum
  Triste," "A Stone, A Leaf," (poems), Hyperion:Black
  Sun, New Moon, Judy Hogan, Editor, Carolina Wren
  Press, (anthology 1980).
• "The Cave" (Dutch translation), Practices of the Wind,
  (anthology). (1980).
• "Insomnia" (Dutch translation) Blue Buildings. (1979).
• "Suspension," "Penumbra," (poems), Big Breakfast, (U.
  Of Colorado, Boulder, 1978).
• "Last Ditch Manifesto," "Undoing," "The Way Out,"
  (poems, Womanthology: A Collection of Colorado Women
  Poets, Janet H. Yench and Kathy B. Riley, Editors
  (anthology, 1977).
• "The Tale of the Transparent Eye," (poem) Gumbo. (U.
  Of Colorado, Ft. Collins,1977).
  

Honors, Awards and Acknowledgements

• Grant for poetry writing from the Neodata Foundation,
  1990.
• Katherine Sharp Rachlis Memorial grant from the Ludwig
  Vogelstein Foundation, 1988.
• Writer's Residency, Ucross Foundation, 1988.
• Arts and Humanities Assembly of Boulder grant, 1988.
• Associate in poetry, Rocky Mountain Women's Institute,
  1987.
• First place winner, Embers poetry competition, 1986.

Short Bio
Constance Studer earned a diploma from the Toledo
Hospital School of Nursing and worked as a registered
nurse in Intensive Care-Coronary Care and as a
hospital supervisor. She earned a B.A. in English
Literature from Illinois college, Jacksonville,
Illinois and a M.A. in Creative Writing from the
University of Colorado, Boulder. Besides working as a
registered nurse, she taught creative writing in the
continuing education department of the University of
Colorado.

Contact Information
cstjal@prodigy.net