Bio
Poet and photographer Margaret B. Ingraham is the author of a poetry collection Exploring this Terrain (Paraclete Press, 2020); This Holy Alphabet, lyric poems based on her original translation of Psalm 119 (Paraclete Press, 2009); and a poetry chapbook, Proper Words for Birds (Finishing Line Press), nominated for the 2010 Library of Virginia Award in poetry. Her poetry has been published or is forthcoming in A Thin Slice of Anxiety, The Courtship of Winds, DASH Literary Journal, Door is A Jar Magazine, Evening Street Review, The Hollins Critic, MacGuffin, Medicine and Meaning, Mount Hope Magazine, Nonconformist Magazine, Off the Coast, Sage Cigarettes Magazine, Spiritus, Steam Ticket, THINK Journal, Third Wednesday, Umbrella Factory Magazine, Visitant Lit, and Valparaiso Poetry Review. Ingraham is the recipient of an Academy of American Poetry Award, a Sam Ragan Award, and numerous residential Fellowships at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Margaret has twice collaborated with internationally recognized composer Gary Davison, most notably to create “Shadow Tides,” a choral symphony commissioned by Artistic Director Gretchen Kuhrmann for Choralis to commemorate the tenth anniversary of September 11th and performed on that date in 2011 in Washington, DC. She holds a BA from Vanderbilt University, an MA in English from Georgia State University, and pursued doctoral studies in English (with an emphasis on English Romantic Poetry) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Ingraham resides in Alexandria, Virginia.
