Geri Doran was born in Kalispell, Montana in 1966. Doran has attended Vassar College, the University of Cambridge, the University of Florida (MFA 1995), and Stanford University, where she held a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Poetry. She lives in Eugene, Oregon where she is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Oregon.

• 2015-2016 James Merrill House, Stonington, CT
• 2012 Oregon Arts Commission Fellowship^[1]
• 2005 Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship^[2]
• 2005 Bread Loaf Writers' Conference Fellowship
• 2004 Academy of American Poets Walt Whitman Award^[3]
• 2001 Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Poetry from Stanford University^[4]
• 1999 Literary Arts, Inc. Poetry Fellowship^[5]

• Retrospective (The Atlantic, 2005)^[6]
• Resin, poems (Louisiana State University Press, 2005)^[7]
• Sanderlings, poems (Tupelo Press, 2011)^[8]
• The Good Field^[9]

• Academy of American Poets Author Page
• University of Oregon Faculty Page