Deborah Fleming’s nonfiction collection Resurrection of the Wild: Meditations onOhio’s Natural Landscape won the 2020 PEN-America Art of the Essay Award. Her second collection, Ghosts of an Old Forest: Essays on Midwestern Rural Heritage, will be out in April 2025. She has published five books of poems, a novel, and four volumes of scholarship, and she served for many years as director and editor of the Ashland Poetry Press.
Deborah Fleming’s nonfiction collection Resurrection of the Wild: Meditations on Ohio’s Natural Landscape (2019) won the PEN-America Diamonstein/Spielvogel Art of the Essay Award for2020. Her second collection, Ghosts of Old Forests: Essays on Midwestern Rural Heritage, will be out in April 2025. She is the author of three books of poems, Morning, Winter Solstice (2012), Into a New Country (2016), and Earthrise (2021); chapbooks Migrations (2005) and Source of the River (2018); and a novel, Without Leave (2014), winner of the Asheville Award from Black Mountain Press. Her scholarship includes “A man who does not exist”: The Irish Peasant in W. B. Yeats and J. M. Synge (1995), Towers of Myth and Stone: Yeats’s Influence on Robinson Jeffers (2015), Learning the Trade: W. B. Yeats and Contemporary Poetry (1992), and W. B. Yeats and Postcolonialism (2000). Winner of a Vandewater Poetry Award and grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and National Council of Learned Societies, she has had three poems nominated for the Pushcart Prize. She served for many years as director and editor of the Ashland Poetry Press.
