Millicent Borges Accardi

Painting of author by Charles Accardi

Millicent Borges Accardi is a Portuguese-American poet. She has received literary fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), CantoMundo, the California Arts Council, Barbara Deming Foundation, and Formby Special Collections at Texas Tech University for research on the writer/activist Key Boyle. Her full-length poetry collection Injuring Eternity is with World Nouveau (Mischievous Muse Press) , and a second collection, Only More So is forthcoming from (Salmon Poetry Ireland), spring 2012. She also has a chapbook, Woman on a Shaky Bridge with Finishing Line Press.

Her work has appeared in over 50 publications including Nimrod, Tampa Review, New Letters and Wallace Stevens Journal as well as in Boomer Girls (Iowa Press) and Chopin with Cherries (Moonrise Press) anthologies.

Artist Residencies include Yaddo, Jentel, Vermont Studio, Fundación Valparaíso in Mojacar, Milkwood in Cesky Krumlov, CZ and the Portuguese writers conference Disquiet in Lisbon, Portugal.

Her theater and book reviews can be found in print and online at The Topanga Messenger.

She received degrees in English and literature from CSULB, holds a Masters in Professional Writing from the University of Southern California and works as a freelance writer (technical writing and instructional design).

Works

Poetry Collections

• Injuring Eternity, Mischievous Muse, 2010
• Only More So, Salmon Poetry (Ireland), forthcoming 2012

Chapbooks

• Woman on a Shaky Bridge Finishing Line Press, 2010

Awards

1997-98: National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship for Poetry
2011: Canto Mundo Fellowship
2010: Formby Fellowship, Special Collections Library at Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
2003: California Arts Council Grant for Poetry
2002: Barbara Deming Foundation
1998: Alden B. Dow Fellowship (unable to attend)
1992: Elizabethe Kempthorne Endowment for Creative Writing at USC
1991: State of California Pre-Doctoral Grant

Memberships

PEN/America
Associated Writing Programs Associate
Portuguese-American Women's Association
Canto-Mundo
USC Alumni Association
Society for Technical Communication

References

• Woman on a Shaky Bridge - by Millicent Borges Accardi, Review by Robert Manaster, Rattle, June 5th, 2010
• Woman on a Shaky Bridge--Millicent Borges Accardi, Interview by Laura Baudo Sillerman, Huffington Post, June 9th, 2010
• The Human Experience, Review by Georgia Ann Banks-Martin in Her Circle EZine, April, 2010
• Review in Onomotopoeia Magazine by Jara Jones, June 2010
• Review by Michael Northern in Word Gathering, 2010
• Review in Poets Quarterly by Joan Hana, Issue 4, winter 2010
• Review in Boston Literary Magazine Fall 2009
• Review in New York Journal of Books by David Cooper, Jan. 1, 2010
• To the Other Side and Back Again: Millicent Borges Accardi’s Woman on a Shaky Bridge, Review by Chris Crawford, June 2010
• Review in Rufous City by Jessica Bixel, Aug. 27, 2010
• Hiram Poetry Review Issue #72 (June 2011) by Kathi Stafford
• Review of Injuring Eternity Gifts of Dawn, May 2011 Review by Linda Scott
• Review of Woman on a Shaky Bridge by Reinaldo Silva, Ph.D.Dept. Línguas e Culturas, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
• The Compulsive Reader, April 2011 by Sheri Fresonke Harper
• Blue Moon Northeast, June 2011 by Meg Harris
• Word Gathering, June 2011 by Mike Northern
• New Mirage, July 2011 by Linda Benninghoff
• Review of Injuring Eternity in The Poetry Kit UK, by Lesley Burt, June 2011
• Portuguese-American Literature Bibliography

External links

• Author website: [1]
• Huffington Post Interview, June 2010: [2]

• http://www.hercircleezine.com/2010/04/01/woman-on-a-shaky-bridge-by-millicent-borges-accardi/
• http://www.pagelambert.blogspot.com/
• http://gentlyread.wordpress.com/2010/06/01/to-the-other-side-and-back-again-millicent-borges-accardis-woman-on-a-shaky-bridge/
• http://womensvoicesforchange.org/millicent-borges-accardi-woman-on-a-shaky-bridge.htm
• http://rattle.com/blog/2010/06/woman-on-a-shaky-bridge-by-millicent-borges-accardi/

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