Bailey, Jan (1944 - )

Genre: Poetry

Award-winning poet Jan Bailey lives on Monhegan Island, ME. She is a winner of the Sue Saniel Elkind Poetry Prize from Kalliope and the Elinor Benedict Poetry Prize from Passages North, and is a Pushcart Prize nominee and South Carolina Poetry Fellow. She grew up in the foothills of South Carolina and holds an MFA from Vermont College.

Selected Bibliography

  • Paper Clothes: [Poems] (1995)
  • Heart of the Other: Island Poems (1998)
  • Midnight in the Guestroom: Poems (2004)
  • Sailing Maine (2006)