Beckian Fritz Goldberg
Beckian Fritz Goldberg grew up in Arizona and received her M.F.A. from Vermont College. She is the author of seven previous volumes of poetry, Body Betrayer, In the Badlands of Desire, Never Be the Horse, winner of the University of Akron Poetry Prize, Twentieth Century Children, a limited edition chapbook, winner of the Indiana Review chapbook prize, Lie Awake Lake, winner of the Field Poetry Prize , The Book of Accident, Reliquary Fever: New and Selected Poems, and Egypt From Space. Goldberg has been awarded the Theodore Roethke Poetry Prize from Poetry Northwest, The Gettysburg Review Annual Poetry Prize, two Arizona Commission on the Arts Poetry Fellowships and two Pushcart Prizes. Her work has appeared in numerous anthologies such as New American Poets of the 90’s, Best American Poetry 1995, Best American Poetry, and in journals, including The American Poetry Review, Field, The Gettysburg Review, Harper’s, Gulf Coast, Plume and others. She currently lives in Oxnard, California, with her two cats.
