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Nadia Colburn (born December 5, 1972) is an American poet, teacher, literary critic, and writing coach based in Cambridge, MA. She has published poetry and prose in a wide range of national publications and her poetry book The High Shelf was published in 2019.^[4][5] She was a founding editor of Anchor Magazine.^[6] Nadia Colburn is a recipient of Pen/New England Discovery Award^[2] and Jacob K. Javits Fellowship.^[3]

Colburn grew up in New York City.^[7] She graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard University with a B.A. in English. She went on to get a Ph.D. in English Literature at Columbia University and has worked as a professor at Lesley, MIT, and at Stonehill College.

Colburn co-founded Anchor Magazine: The Intersection of Spirituality and Social Justice in 2013.^[8] She is the founder of the writing school Align Your Story. Her classes combine writing, mindfulness, and embodied practices.^[9] Colburn often writes about the environment, social justice, women's issues, and mindfulness.^[9] She lives in Cambridge, MA with her husband and two children.

Colburn's poetry and prose have been published in Harvard Review,^[10] Midway Journal,^[11] The American Poetry Review,^[12][13] The New Yorker,^[14] The Southwest Review,^[15] Oxford's Literary Imagination, The Kenyon Review,^[16] Spirituality and Health,^[17] Lion's Roar,^[18] and Slate. Her essay "Listening to My Body" was included in The Anatomy of Silence: Twenty-Six Stories About All the Sh** That Gets in the Way of Speaking About Sexual Violence.^[19] She was a contributing author in The Cambridge Companion to W.H. Auden.^[20] Colburn's debut poetry book on pregnancy, nature, trauma, and love, The High Shelf, was published in 2019.^[21] She has written reviews on books and arts for Los Angeles Review of Books,^{[citation needed]} Harvard Review,^[10] and Boston Review.^[22]

• Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship^[3]
• Jacob K. Javits Fellowship^[3]
• Bunner Prize for Best American Essay at Columbia University^{[citation needed]}
• Pen/New England Discovery Award^[2][23]

• Nadia Colburn