Anita Endrezze (born 1952) is an American poet, writer, and artist based in Washington.[1]
Background
Endrezze was born in
Long Beach, California, in 1952. She claims
Yaqui ancestry from her father and European (Slovenian,
German-Romanian, and northern Italian) ancestry from her mother.[1]
Endrezze is a storyteller, artist and teacher. She teaches university courses and her work has been translated into seven languages, published in ten countries. She has taken part in the Washington State Council for the Humanities Speakers' Series.[2][3]
Poet and artist
In March 2000, Endrezze's book Throwing Fire at the Sun, Water at the Moon was published. The book is illustrated by her paintings.[4]
A book of Endrezze's poems, at the helm of twilight, won the 1992 Bumbershoot/Weyerhaeuser Award and the Governor's Writing Award for Washington State.[5] She also received a grant from Artist Trust to aid her in researching Throwing Fire at the Sun, Water at the Moon.[6]Lune D'Ambre, a book of her poems translated into French, and published in France by the distinguished house, Rogerie, and a book, The Humming of Stars and Bees and Waves, published in England by Making Waves Press joins her international publications, along with a children's novel, The Mountain and the Guardian Spirit, (CDForlag) in
Danish.
Endrezze's book At the Helm of Twilight was the winner of the Washington Governor's Writers Award and the 1992 Bumbershoot/Weyerhaeuser Publication Award.[7]
Books by Anita Endrezze
Throwing Fire at the Sun, Water at the Moon, (Sun Tracks, V. 40), University of Arizona Press.
Review at Voices in the Gaps.Publisher's page
The Humming of Stars and Bees and Waves, Making Waves Press.