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A poet and concert pianist currently living in Boston, ONI BUCHANAN is the author of Spring, a Poetry Honors winner of the 2009 Massachusetts Book Awards. Spring was selected by Mark Doty for the 2007 National Poetry Series, and published by the University of Illinois Press in October 2008. The book includes a Flash-animation CD of her large-scale kinetic poem, "The Mandrake Vehicles," also on permanent display at the Conduit website. Extending her digital and multimedia interests, Oni is currently at work on a large-scale interactive poem videogame, on which she is collaborating with composer and bassist Lisa Mezzacappa.

Oni's first poetry book, What Animal, was selected by Fanny Howe as a winner of the University of Georgia Press Contemporary Poetry Series competition and published in 2003. Oni's poems have been selected for numerous anthologies including The Best American Poetry 2004 and Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century, and have been published in many print and online literary journals, appearing most recently in the New Orleans Review, Columbia Poetry Review, Conduit, Gulf Coast, Copper Nickel, Drunken Boat, jubilat, and Seneca Review.

Among her many recent honors, Oni received the Stanley P. Young Fellowship in Poetry from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in 2006, and was one of the Poetry Society of America's New American Poets of 2005. She holds a B.A. in English and music from the University of Virginia, an M.F.A. in poetry from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and a Master's degree in piano performance from the New England Conservatory of Music. As a concert pianist, she has released three solo piano CDs, and actively performs across the U.S. and abroad. She lives in Boston, where she maintains a private piano teaching studio.


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ONI BUCHANAN is the author of Spring, a Poetry Honors winner of the 2009 Massachusetts Book Awards and selected by Mark Doty for the 2007 National Poetry Series. Her first poetry book, What Animal, was published in 2003 by the University of Georgia Press. Oni is also a concert pianist, has released three solo piano CDs, and actively performs across the U.S. and abroad. She lives in Boston, where she maintains a private piano teaching studio.


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