Ms. Anna Lowe Weber
Senior Lecturer, EnglishBiography
Anna Lowe Weber is a lecturer in the English department at The University of Alabama in Huntsville. She teaches classes in poetry, fiction, and composition. Her poetry has been published in the Iowa Review, Black Warrior Review, Salamander, Rattle, and Ninth Letter, among other journals. She has been a Pushcart Prize nominee and a Rattle Poetry Prize finalist, and her manuscript, Variations on a Domestic Theme, was a semi-finalist for the Idaho Prize for Poetry. In addition to teaching, she serves as coordinator for Alabama’s Region Five Poetry Out Loud competition.
Education
M.F.A., Poetry, Purdue University
B.A., English, College of Charleston
Honors & Awards
- 2017: Nominee, Best of the Net Anthology
- 2017: Semi-finalist, Brett Elizabeth Jenkins Poetry Prize
- 2015: 2nd Place, Southern Writers Symposium Emerging Writers Contest
- 2014: Honorable Mention, the Jane Lumley Prize in Poetry
- 2012: Semi-finalist; Idaho Prize for Poetry
- 2011: Rattle Poetry Prize finalist
- 2009: Pushcart Prize nominee
- 2008: Honorable Mention, creative non-fiction, 77th Annual Purdue Literary Awards
- 2008: Winner, Kneale Award in poetry, 77th Annual Purdue Literary Awards
- 2007: Nominee, National Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship
Affiliations
- Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP)
- Huntsville Literary Association
Recent Publications
Dislocate: "Aviary;" "If Not Latvia, Then What?" (2006)
