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Dara Wier (born 1949) is an American poet and the author of eleven books of poetry, including most recently Selected Poems. She has received literary awards including the Jerome J. Shestack Poetry Prize (2001) and the Pushcart Prize (2002). She has also received fellowships and grants from the Guggenheim Foundation (1992), the National Endowment for the Arts (1980), and the Massachusetts Cultural Council (2000).

Wier has taught poetry writing workshops at Hollins University, the University of Alabama, Emory University, Baylor University, the University of Idaho, the University of Texas, the University of Utah and Bennington College. She currently serves as the director of the prestigious MFA Program for Poets & Writers at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where she is on the poetry faculty with James Tate and Peter Gizzi. She also co-directs (with Noy Holland and Lisa Olstein) the University of Massachusetts' Juniper Initiative for Literary Arts and Action.

Wier is also the founding editor of Factory Hollow Press ( www.factoryhollowpress.com ). Factory Hollow Press is the publishing division of Sleepy Lemur Quality Enterprises which is the production division of The Meeteetzee Institute.

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