death_date death_place birth_place awards nationality ethnicity notableworks name birth_date article_title birth_name occupation alma_mater
10 april 2009 amherst , massachusetts jefferson city , missouri ingram-merrill the arts grant -lrb- 1987 -rrb- ; delmore schwartz memorial award award -lrb- 1987 -rrb- ; guggenheim fellowship , -lrb- 1988 -lrb- -rrb- ; kingsley tufts poetry award -lrb- 1996 -rrb- 1985 -rrb- ; national endowment for american dutch american '' rough music '' -lrb- 1995 -rrb- vesper sparrows '' -lrb- 1986 -rrb- ; '' deborah digges 6 february 1950 deborah digges
 deborah sugarbaker writer , poet , teacher university of missouri , m.a. ; iowa writers ' workshop , of m.f.a. california , riverside , b.a. ; university
deborah digges

deborah digges -lrb- february 6 , 1950 -- april 10 , 2009 -rrb- was an american poet and teacher .
