Sidney Wade
| Dr. Sidney Wade | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1951 |
| Nationality | United States |
| Institutions | University of Florida |
| Alma mater |
University of Vermont University of Houston |
| Notable awards | Fulbright Fellowship |
Sidney Wade (born 1951) is an American poet. She currently holds the position of Professor of creative writing at the University of Florida, where she has taught since 1993.
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 an Ph.D in English from the University of Houston in 1994.
Wade has published five poetry collections, including: Celestial Bodies (2002), Green (1998), From Istanbul/Istanbul'dan (1998), and Empty Sleeves (1990). Istanbul'dan/From Istanbul was published in Turkish and English by Yapi Kredi Publications. Wade's latest collection of poems, Stroke, was published by Persea Books. Her poems have also appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry Magazine, The New Republic, Southern Review, and other publications. 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" (Northfield: Talisman, 2017) and was winner of the 2015 Meral Divitci Prize. Some of these translations also appeared in literary journals such as "The American Reader", "Five Points", "Denver Quarterly", "Guernica", "Critical Flame", "Turkis Poetry Today" "Poet Lore", "Asymptote", and "Two Lines".
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