Illinois Authors

Lucia Cordell Getsi

Born: December 31, 1944 in Nashville, Tennessee
Pen Name: Lucia Getsi

Connection to Illinois: Getsi lives in Normal, Illinois and taught at Illinois State University.

Biography: Lucia Cordell Getsi is a Distinguished Prof Emerita of English who is retired from teaching creative writing and poetry at Illinois State University. She spent her childhood in Tennessee.

• -- ''Illinois Author of the Year'' by the Illinois Association of Teachers of English in 1994
• -- Governor’s Award for the Arts 1995
• -- Pablo Neruda Prize 1999

Primary Literary Genre(s): Poetry

Primary Audience(s): Adult readers; Children; Young adult readers

Email: lcgetsi@ilstu.edu
Lucia Cordell Getsi on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=lucia+cordell+getsi

Selected Titles

	Bottleships : ISBN: 0727503413 OCLC: 12476567 Aquila, Portree : 1986.
	Intensive care : ISBN: 0898231418 OCLC: 27103720 New Rivers Press ; Minneapolis : 1992.
	No one taught this filly to dance / ISBN: 0936044055 OCLC: 20445529 Pikestaff Press, Normal, Ill. : ©1989.
	Teeth mother letters / ISBN: 0943216095 OCLC: 20115709 Moonsquilt Press, North Miami Beach, Fla. : ©1984.