Sandra McPherson

Sandra McPherson

About Sandra McPherson

Sandra McPherson is a modern american poet. She studied at the University of Washington, with Elizabeth Bishop and David Wagoner. She considers her 'literary mothers' to be Elizabeth Bishop, Carolyn Kizer, and Adrienne Rich. She has taught at the Iowa Writer's Workshop, the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival, Haystack Portland State University, University of California at Berkeley Spring 1981 or 1982 as Roberta Holloway Visiting Lecturer, and the Art of the Wild Conference. She is a Professor Emerita at the University of California at Davis. Having been a featured poet on the poetry circuits of Ohio, Kentucky, and Connecticut, she has also read in most states: Washington D.C., Louisiana, Georgia, Indiana, Utah, Texas, Iowa, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Florida, Delaware, Virginia, Arkansas, Alabama, and California.
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