Mormon Literature Database - Partridge, Dixie

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	Dixie Partridge Dixie Lee Henderson Partridge grew up with seven siblings on an Afton, Wyoming farm homesteaded with her great-grandfather. Stories rooted in that childhood make up many of the poems of her two published books, Deer in the Haystacks (1984), and Watermark (1991), which received the national Eileen W. Barnes Award for a book of poetry by a woman over forty. Dixie’s poetry has won several awards and is widely published in national and regional journals and anthologies; she is working on two additional book manuscripts. Dixie earned a degree in English from Brigham Young University and studied in Northwest writing workshops. She has edited poetry for a River Writing anthology and currently serves as the poetry editor of two journals. She and her husband Jerry have raised their six children in Richland, Washington, near the Columbia River. Much of Dixie’s work carries a strong sense of place and history and a tone of emotional or spiritual change, displacement, or discovery. [from Discoveries: Two Centuries of Poems by Mormon Women, 110-11] Included in 75 Significant Mormon Poets View Works by this Person
Also Known As	Dixie L. Partridge; Dixie Lee PartridgeDixie Lee Henderson Partridge
Religion	LDS
Birth Date	July 6, 1943
Birth Place	Afton, Wyoming
Education	B.A., English, BYU, 1965 Northwest Writers Workshops
Affiliations	Washington Poets Association Rattlesnake Mountain Writers (founding member)
Awards	Eileen W. Barnes Award (for book manuscript) 1990 Seattle Arts Commission Writers Award, 1989; Bumbershoot Awards (WA state) 1988, 1990, 1992 Arts Council Broadside Award (Ellensburg WA), 1986 William Stafford Awards, WA Poets Association, 1979, 1982, 1989 Catholic Press Assoc. Award for Poetry, 1989 Journal Awards from Literature & Belief, 1989 and Dialogue, 1997 Various local and regional awards in poetry 1990-2000
Personal Statement	"Partridge offers a strong sense of place, history, and family. Her poems glow with a farmer's wary love of nature and an economy honed by years of study and writing." [England and Clark, Harvest]
Other Biographical Information	Residence: Richland, WA Contact Information: 1817 Marshall Ct. Richland WA 99352 [This data provided by the author on April 25, 2003]

Works by Dixie Partridge Sort by title	Year	Genre
Generous Poetry: A Conversation with Dixie L. Partridge	2007	Interview / Panel
From This Ground: Where a Continent Divides	2007	Personal Essay
Luggage: for one leaving	2007	Poetry
Pool of Aspen: After Forty Years	2007	Poetry
Watermark: The Reservoir	2007	Poetry
Standing in Place in Yellowstone	2003	Poetry
What’s Visible Near Moab	2003	Poetry
In the North Cascades	2002	Poetry
New under the Sun: Awaiting a Birth	2002	Poetry
Turn, Near Equinox	2002	Poetry
White Noise	2002	Poetry
Year of the Bat	2002	Poetry
Again, October	2001	Poetry
Late Gardens	2001	Poetry
Through High Country Woods, before Spring	2001	Poetry
The Year's Last Banquets	2001	Poetry
Apprentice in Autumn	2000	Poetry
Corridor	2000	Poetry
From a River Road	1999	Poetry
From This Ground	1999	Poetry
In a Time of Fall Plowing	1999	Poetry
Past and Present Tenses	1999	Poetry
Winter Woods Without Snow	1999	Poetry
The Watering	1998	Poetry
About Stones	1997	Poetry
Rain Forest	1997	Poetry
Sage Junction	1997	Poetry
Sleeping Out at the Farm	1997	Poetry
states of grace	1997	Poetry
Cold, After Drought	1996	Poetry
Near the Utah Arches	1996	Poetry
Sleep Island	1996	Poetry
Bread: A Returning	1995	Poetry
Daughter, in April	1995	Poetry
Descending Order	1995	Poetry
On Re-Entering Autumn	1995	Poetry
Ravens at Island in the Sky, Canyonlands, Utah	1995	Poetry
Release: A Moment	1995	Poetry
Saturday: One Version: (Fourth Week of An Unidentified Illness)	1995	Poetry
Strand	1995	Poetry
Traveling without Reservation	1995	Poetry
Detour	1994	Poetry
Movements Giving Off Light	1994	Poetry
Routes Back	1994	Poetry
Breadcrumbs	1993	Poetry
Leave of Absence	1993	Poetry
Night Myths	1993	Poetry
Notes for a Son, 19, Living Abroad	1993	Poetry
Venetian Blinds	1993	Poetry
Shedding of Summers	1992	Poetry
Things Grown Out of the Dark	1992	Poetry
Winter Loss	1992	Poetry
Aspen Grove	1991	Poetry
One Sunday's Rain : (After Word of My Father's Illness)	1991	Poetry
Watermark	1991	Poetry Collection
Words for Late Summer	1991	Poetry
During Drought	1990	Poetry
Field Pond	1990	Poetry
Hostage	1990	Poetry
Obsidian	1990	Poetry
One of the Women	1990	Poetry
Rain	1990	Poetry
Abandoned Farmyard, November	1989	Poetry
City Rains	1989	Poetry
Cliff Dwellings	1989	Poetry
Learning to Quilt	1989	Poetry
Quickening	1989	Poetry
Receiving Word	1989	Poetry
Ritual Rising	1989	Poetry
Snowy Owl At Woodland Park Zoo	1989	Poetry
Watermarks	1989	Poetry
Why Do Trees Look Blue	1989	Poetry
Wilderness	1989	Poetry
A Woman Dreams of Her Daughter, Born with Down's Syndrome	1989	Poetry
Her Listening	1988	Poetry
Winter Terms	1988	Poetry
Aunt Mavis	1987	Poetry
Imprint: Fragment from a Childhood	1987	Poetry
Luggage	1987	Poetry
Night of the Freezing Rain	1987	Poetry
Nocturne, October	1987	Poetry
On Seeing Part of a Cast Iron Stove, Rusting Behind a Shed	1987	Poetry
Papering	1987	Poetry
Piano Pieces	1987	Poetry
Watercolor	1987	Poetry
What Changes	1987	Poetry
Absence	1986	Poetry
Prevailing Wind	1986	Poetry
Release: Greeting Jade Back from the Indonesian Mission	1986	Poetry
Angles	1985	Poetry
Why We Climbed	1985	Poetry
Winter Horses	1985	Poetry
Deer in the Haystacks	1984	Poetry Collection
Dry Creek Farmer	1984	Poetry
Taking a Side Road Home	1984	Poetry
The Burlap Years	1983	Poetry
One Winter	1981	Poetry
The Call	1980	Poetry
Brand		Poetry