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Chris Agee is an American poet, essayist, and editor. He was born on 18 January 1956 in San Francisco, California, United States. He is the editor of Irish Pages, a journal of contemporary writing from Ireland and abroad. He is also the author of several books of poetry, including The River of Lost Voices: Stories from Guatemala, and The Ghost Orchid. Agee has received numerous awards for his work, including the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry, the American-Irish Historical Society Literary Award, and the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry. He has also been a fellow at the MacDowell Colony and the Hawthornden International Retreat for Writers. Agee is currently 68 years old. He has not revealed any information about his height or physical stats. As of 2021, Chris Agee's net worth is estimated to be around $1 million. He has earned his wealth through his successful career as a poet, essayist, and editor.

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Occupation Poet, Essayist, and Editor of Irish Pages
Age 68 years old
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Born 18 January 1956
Birthday 18 January
Birthplace San Francisco, California, United States
Nationality United States

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2019

Agee grew up in Massachusetts, New York and Rhode Island. During the last three years of secondary school, he attended Phillips Academy (Andover), before spending a year of French language study at the Université d’Aix-en-Provence in the South of France. He attended Harvard University, where he studied with the poet and translator Robert Fitzgerald, and the Brazilian philosopher Roberto Mangabeira Unger. In 1979, he graduated cum laude with a BA in American literature and language. After graduation, he moved to Ireland.

2002

In 2002, Agee founded Irish Pages, It has been variously described as "a wonderful achievement" (Michael Longley); "an important event in the history of Northern Ireland" (Hilary Wakeman); "a major development in Irish literature" (John F. Deane); and "the most important cultural journal in Ireland at the present moment" (Jonathan Allison).

2001

In 2001, he participated in the Struga Festival, Eastern Europe’s most distinguished poetry festival, which that year awarded its "Golden Wreath" to Seamus Heaney. In 2003, Agee was an International Writing Fellow at the William Joiner Center, University of Massachusetts, Boston. In 2007 and 2009, respectively, he was a writer-in-residence at the St James Cavalier Arts Centre in Malta, and at the Heinrich Boll Cottage, on Achill Island, Co Mayo.

2000

Two of his Balkan essays, "The Stepinac File" (2000) and "A Week in Sarajevo" (1996), are widely known outside Ireland. The first, which explores the collaboration of the Catholic Church with the fascist Ustashe regime in Croatia during the Second World War, has been circulated extensively on the Internet. The second, written at the end of the Bosnian war, achieved considerable civic renown when it appeared in translation in Sarajevo some months later.

1998

Agee edited Scar on the Stone (1998), the first English-language anthology of Bosnian poetry published after the outbreak of the Bosnian war and the subsequent genocide and partition. It brings together 14 of Bosnia's poets and a selection of younger poets drawn from the country's three main ethnic groups.

1990

His wife, whom he married in 1990, grew up in Armagh and studied art and design at the University of Ulster in Belfast. Their first child, Jacob Eoin, was born in 1993, and their second, Miriam Aoife, in 1997. Miriam died suddenly in 2001. The poems in Agee's third collection, Next to Nothing, were written in the aftermath of her death.

Chris Agee has close connections with the Balkans, Croatia and Bosnia in particular. He spends two months each year at his house in Žrnovo, on the island of Korčula, in the far south of Croatia, and has visited Bosnia for substantial periods many times. His second collection, First Light, includes a suite of Balkan poems written in the mid- to late 1990s, and thus constitutes one of the very rare firsthand responses, from an English-language or Western poet, to the postwar aftermath in Bosnia and Kosovo. During the same period, he wrote occasional articles on Western policy in the Balkans for Oslobodjene, the Sarajevo daily.

1986

Agee's forthcoming collection of prose, Journey to Bosnia, brings together essays and reviews on a variety of Irish, Balkan, literary and ecological topics written since 1986. He reviews mainly poetry for The Irish Times.

1980

By the mid-1980s his residence in Belfast became permanent. Between 1979 and 1989, he worked as a lecturer in adult literacy. From 1989 to 1992, he worked full-time for the Community Education Department of The Open University in Ireland; from 1988 to 2004, he also taught a number of arts and American studies courses in the Arts Faculty of The Open University, including individual tutorials, for 10 years, with republican and loyalist prisoners at the Maze and Maghaberry Prisons. From 1992 to 2007, he was employed by the University of East London (on a Senior Lecturer scale) to direct the Irish office of a British trade union education fund. Since 2007, when he resigned from that post, he has worked as the full-time Editor of Irish Pages: A Journal of Contemporary Writing (based at The Linen Hall Library, Belfast) as well as in a freelance literary capacity, including as a reviewer for The Irish Times.

Agee wrote his first poems during his last year at Harvard. The first appeared in Irish periodicals in the late 1980s. He is now the author of three books of poems, In the New Hampshire Woods (The Dedalus Press, Dublin, 1992), First Light (The Dedalus Press, Dublin, 2003) and Next to Nothing (Salt Publishing, Cambridge, England, 2009).

1977

During the summers of 1977 and '78, Agee was based in the Wicklow Mountains and Belfast.

1956

Christopher Robert Agee (born 18 January 1956, in San Francisco) is a poet, essayist and editor living in Ireland. He holds dual American and Irish citizenship, and has spent most of his adult life in Ireland. He spends part of each year on the Dalmatian island of Korčula, near Dubrovnik, in Croatia.