Faculty

 

About

Robert Antoni was born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1958, and he carries two passports: from the US, and Trinidad and Tobago. Antoni’s fictional world is the island of Corpus Christi, and to create it he draws upon his two hundred years of family history in Trinidad and Tobago, as well as his upbringing in the Bahamas. His first novel, Divina Trace, was published in 1991, and his most recent novel, Carnival, was published in 2005. The latter work has appeared in French, Spanish, Finnish, and Chinese translations. Antoni was named a Guggenheim Fellow for 2010 for his upcoming historical novel, As Flies to Whatless Boys. Antoni has taught a wide range of courses in creative writing and literature at such esteemed institutions as The New School University of New York, Columbia University, The University of Miami, The University of Iowa, and Johns Hopkins University. He currently lives in Manhattan, and he frequently visits Barcelona, where he has kept an alternate address for the past 20 years.

Teaching Experience

• 2006-2010, The New School University, New York, NY, Assistant Professor of creative writing and literature.
• 2004-2005, Columbia University, New York, NY, Assistant Professor of creative writing and literature.
• 1992-2001, The University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, Associate Professor of creative writing and literature. Helped to establish the MFA program and taught graduate fiction workshops for 9 years, as well as undergraduate fiction writing and literature. Associate Director of the Caribbean Writers Summer Institute.
• 1985-1990, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, Assistant Professor of creative writing and literature.
• 1991-1992, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, Assistant Professor of creative writing.

 Awards & Honors

• Named a Guggenheim Fellow for 2010 for his historical novel, As Flies to Whatless Boys
• Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Prize, 2006
• The Paris Review’s Aga Kahn Prize for Fiction, 1999
• Commonwealth Writers Prize, Overall First Book Winner (Divina Trace), 1992
• Commonwealth Writers Prize, Canada and Caribbean First Book Winner, 1992
• Max Orowitz Grant, University of Miami, 1992
• National Endowment for the Arts Grant, 1984
• James Michener Fellowship, 1984

Languages

Fluent in English and Spanish

Publications

Novels

• As Flies to Whatless Boys, forthcoming.
• Carnival, published by Grove/Atlantic in New York (2005), and by Faber & Faber in London (2006). It has been translated into French (Denoel, 2006), Finnish (LIKE, 2006), Spanish (Anagrama, 2006), and Chinese (Shanghai Sanhui Culture and Press, Ltd., 2007).
• My Grandmother’s Erotic Folktales, published in London by Faber & Faber (2000), and by Grove/Atlantic in New York (2001). It has been translated into French (Editions Du Rocher, 2001), Finnish (LIKE, 2001), and Spanish (Anagrama, 2002).
• Blessed is the Fruit, published in New York by Henry Holt (1997), and in London by Faber & Faber (1998).
• Divina Trace, published in New York by the Overlook Press (1992), and London by Quartet Books (1991).

Short Fiction

• “Dimanche Gras,” The Caribbean Writer as Warrior of the Imaginary, Anthology, eds. Kathleen Gyssels and Benedict Ledent, Cross/Cultures 101 Readings in Post/Colonial Literatures in English, Editions Rodopi B.V., (Amsterdam, New York), 2009, pp. 19-23.
• “How to Make Photocopies in the Trinidad & Tobago National Archives,” Trinidad Noir, Anthology, eds. Lisa Allen-Agostini & Jeanne Mason, Akashic Books (New York), 2008, pp. 193-214.
• “The Historic Voyage of the Rosalind,” Conjunctions: 50, Fifty Contemporary Writers, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, (New York), April 2008, pp. 377-402.
• “Trial of the Satellite or How My Great-great-great-grandfather Almost Lost His Virginity on His Fifteenth Birthday,” Conjunctions: 47, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Issue, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, (New York), December 2006, pp. 85-106.
• “At the End of the Road,” Conjunctions: 44, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, (New York), March 2005, pp. 302-310.
• “My Grandmother’s Tale of How Crab-o Lost his Head,” in The Beacon Best of 2000, ed. Edwidge Danticat, Beacon Press (Boston), 2000, pp. 95-122.
• “My Grandmother’s Story of the Buried Treasure and How She Defeated the King of Chacachacari and the Entire American Army with Her Venus-Flytraps,” in Whispers From the Cotton Tree Root: Caribbean Fabulist Fiction, ed. Nalo Hopkinson, Invisible Cities Press (Montpelier, Vermont), 2000, pp. 211-241.
• “My Grandmother’s Tale of How Iguana Got Her Wrinkles,” Conjunctions:34, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, (New York), spring 2000.
• “My Grandmother’s Tale of How Crab-o Lost His Head,” Paris Review, 152 (New York), Fall 1999, pp. 225-254. Winner of the 1999 Aga Kahn Prize for fiction.
• “A World of Canes,” The Oxford Book of Caribbean Short Stories, edited by Stewart Brown and John Wickham, Oxford University Press, Oxford U.K., 1999, pp. 403-415.
• “Granny Myna Tells of the Child,” in Having a Wonderful Time, anthology: a South Florida Reader, ed. John Dufresne, Simon and Shuster, 1997, pp. 20-25.
• “Devils in the House,” The Literary Insomniac, ed. Elyse Cheney and Wendy Hubbert, Doubleday (New York), December, 1996, pp. 205-214.
• “A World of Canes,” Conjunctions: 27, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, (New York) November, 1996, pp.334-347.
• “Granny Myna tells of the Child,” an extract from Divina Trace; Cowboys, Indians and Commuters: The Penguin Book of New American Voices, ed. Jay McInerney, Viking: London, England, 1994, pp.62 85.
• Rolling Beads (a novella), Conjunctions: 22, May, 1994, pp.91 133.
• “A Nice White Little Box,” Conjunctions: 20, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, (New York) April, 1993, pp. 150 171.
• “In the Canes,” Parnassus Review Vol. 17, No. 1, a special issue on minority and ethnic writing, 1992, pp. 108-121.
• “My Grandmother’s Story of the Buried Treasure and How she Defeated the King of Chachacari and the Entire American Army with her Venus Flytraps,” Conjunctions: 18,Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, (New York) September, 1992, pp. 281-300.
• “Papee Vince Tells of Magdalene and Barto,” Conjunctions Tenth Anniversary Issue, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, (New York) January 1992, pp. 245 165.
• Extracts from Divina Trace, Ploughshares, Vol.16, No.4, Winter 90-91, pp. 16 27.
• “A Piece of Pommerac,” The Paris Review, Summer 1989, No. 111, pp.168 83.
• “Frogchild on the Day of Corpus Christi,” Hot Type (New York: Collier Books, 1988) pp.175 97.
• “Dust unto Dust,” StoryQuarterly, 1987, No.23, pp. l 22.
• “Two Head Fred and Tree Foot Frieda,” The Editors’ choice: Best Short Fiction for 1985 Vol. II (New York: Bantam Books, 1986) pp. l 19.
• “My Grandmother’s Story,” Telescope, Vol. IV, No. 1 (Baltimore: Galileo Press, 1985) pp. 29-49.
• “Two Head Fred and Tree Foot Frieda,” The Missouri Review, Vol.VIII, No. 1, (University of Missouri-Columbia, 1984) pp.86-117.

Academic Papers

• “Wondering Rochford: Reassessing One of Ulysses’ Minor Characters,” read at the XIV International James Joyce Symposium, Seville, Spain, June 13, 1994.
• “Parody or Piracy: The Relationship of The House of the Spirits to One Hundred Years of Solitude,” Latin America Literary Review, University of Pittsburgh, July December 1988, Vol. XVI, No.32, pp.16-28.
• “Miss Ravenel’s Conversion: A Neglected American Novel, ” The Southern Quarterly,University of Southern Mississippi, Spring 1986, Vol.XXIV, No.3, pp.58 63.
• “Gadshill’s Question in I Henry IV,” Cahiers Elisabethains, l’Universite Paul Valery, Montpelier, France, April 1983, No.23, pp.99-104.

Editing Responsibilities

I am presently a Senior Editor at Conjunctions, and a Contributing Editor at the Paris Review andBOMB magazine.

Journal Edited

The Archipelago: New Writing from and about the Caribbean, coedited by Robert Antoni and Bradford Morrow, Conjunctions: 27, published by Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 12504, November, 1996, 352 pages.

Interviews

• BOMB magazine, by Trinidadian novelist Laurence Scott, Number 91, Spring 2005, pp.54-60.
• Ocean Drive magazine, by Alix Sharkey, July/August 2005, pp.222-224.
• Radio Interview: Leonard Lopate Show, New York, February 18, 2005.
• Television Interview: BBC Worldwide Television, London, November 6, 1998.
• Radio Interview: Up All Night, BBC Radio 5, London, November 5, 1998.
• Radio Interview: Meridian, World Service, London, November 5, 1998.
• Radio Presentation: “A Caribbean of the Imagination,” an essay recorded for Today, London, November 5, 1998.

 

About

David Bezmozgis is an award-winning writer and filmmaker who was born in Riga, Latvia, and immigrated to Toronto in 1980. The New Yorker recently listed him as one of the most promising fiction writers under the age of 40. David’s first novel, The Free World, was published in 2011 in multiple countries, and his first collection, Natasha and Other Stories, has been translated into 15 languages. David’s short stories have appeared in numerous publications including The New Yorker, Harpers, Zoetrope All-Story, and The Walrus. His work has been broadcast on NPR, the BBC, and the CBC, and his stories have been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories2005 & 2006. Bezmozgis has also received international acclaim for his first feature film, Victoria Day. David is currently a fellow at the Harvard/Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. He has taught at Columbia University in New York and at Humber College and York University in Toronto.

Teaching Experience

• Fall 2010, Columbia University, New York, Adjunct Faculty, School of the Arts: Graduate Creative Writing Workshop
• 2009-10, Humber College, Toronto, Canada, Adjunct Faculty, Department of English: Three sections of a course that combines intensive grammar instruction with an introduction to the fundamentals of fiction writing.
• Winter 2008, York University, Toronto, Canada, Adjunct Faculty, Department of English: An upper-level undergraduate course entitled “Reading the News” about the rhetorical methods of the news media. Issues in bias, spinning, framing, ideology and politics were of particular focus.
• Summer 2006, Zoetrope All-Story Writing Workshop, Belize, Writing Instructor: An intensive course for writers of diverse background, age, and competence. Employed a method of close reading student work and that of published fiction and non-fiction: Isaac Babel, Leonard Michaels, Mary Gaitskill, Denis Johnson, Mavis Gallant, Jane Bowles.
• 2004-6,Humber School for Writers, Summer Workshop, Toronto, Writing Instructor: 3hr/daily fiction workshops, predominantly concerned with the short story. Strong emphasis placed on textual analysis and revision.
• 1998-9, University of Southern California, School of Cinematic Arts, Los Angeles, Teaching Assistant: Led discussions and graded MFA candidates in a documentary production and theory class. Addressed issues of voice, perspective, and bias in documentary film.

Awards & Honors

• Cullman Center Fellow at the New York Public Library, 2010-11
• MacDowell Colony Fellow, 2007
• Sundance Institute Screenwriting Fellow, 2006
• John Simon Guggenheim Fellow, 2005
• The New Yorker “20 Under 40” Fiction Writers, 2010
• American Jewish Press Association, Simon Rockower Award, 2007
• City of Toronto Book Award, 2005
• Commonwealth First Book Prize (Canada/Caribbean), 2005
• Danuta Gleed Award for Short Fiction, 2005
• “Jewish Quarterly” Wingate Prize for Fiction (UK), 2005
• Canadian Jewish Fiction Prize, 2005
• Reform Judaism Prize for Jewish Fiction (US), 2005
• Moment Magazine Emerging Writer Award, Fiction (US) 2004
• National Magazine Awards Silver Prize – Fiction (Canada), 2004
• Short List: Frank O’Connor International Short Story Prize, 2005
• Short List: LA Times Arthur Seidenbaum First Fiction Award, 2005
• Short List: National Magazine Awards (US) 2005
• Short List: Canadian Booksellers Award for Fiction, 2005
• Short List: Governor General’s Award for Fiction, 2004
• Short List: GuardianFirst Book Award (UK), 2004
• Short List: Borders Original Voices Award, 2004
• The New York Times “Notable Book 2004″
• New York Public Library “25 Books to Remember 2004″
• LA Times “25 Best Books of the Year”
• Globe and Mail “100 Best Books of 2004″
• The Economist “Best Books of 2004″
• Amazon.com “Top 10 Books of 2004″
• The Independent “Best of 2004″
• Chicago Tribune “Best of 2004″
• Publishers Weekly “Best of 2004″
• Moscow Times “Best of 2004”
• Honourable Mention, O Henry Prize Stories 2007
• Honourable Mention, Best American Short Stories 2004
• Jury Member, Hot Docs International Documentary Festival, 2005
• Canada Council Grant, 2004
• City of Toronto Arts Grant, 2004
• Ontario Arts Council Grant, 2003

Memberships

• PEN Canada
• The Writers’ Union of Canada
• The Writers’ Guild of Canada

Languages

• Reading and basic speaking competence in Russian and Hebrew.
• Basic comprehension in French.

Publications

Books

• David Bezmozgis, The Free World, Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2011; Canadian edition HarperCollins Canada 2011; UK edition Viking 2011; rights sold to Germany, France, Holland, Israel, Italy and Spain.
• David Bezmozgis, Dionne Brand, Caroline Adderson, eds. Journey Prize Stories, 19, Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 2007
• David Bezmozgis, Natasha and Other Stories, by Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2004; Canadian edition HarperCollins Canada 2004; Canadian paperback HarperPerennial 2005; US paperback Picador 2005; Dutch edition De Bezige Bij 2004; UK edition Jonathan Cape 2005; German edition Kiepenhauer & Witsch 2005; French edition Chrisitian Bourgois 2005; Italian edition Ugo Guanda 2005; Spanish edition Destino 2005; Catalan edition Columna 2005; Latvian edition Atena 2005; Japanese edition Shinchosha 2005; Israeli edition Kinneret-Zmora 2006. Foreign rights sold to Portugal, Sweden, Turkey, and Serbia.

Fiction in Collections and Anthologies

• “Natasha”, My Mistress’s Sparrow is Dead: Great Love Stories From Chekhov to Munro, p. 176-197, edited by Jeffrey Eugenides, HarperCollins, New York: 2008
• “Tapka”, The Penguin Book of Canadian Short Stories, p. 119-127, edited by Jane Urquhart, Penguin Canada, Toronto: 2007
• “Lubyanka 2 September 1918”, Four Letter Word: New Love Letters, p. 32-34, edited by Joshua Knelman and Rosalind Porter, Knopf Canada, Toronto: 2008
• “A New Gravestone for an Old Grave”, Open Country: Canadian Literature An Anthology, p. 65-87, edited by Robert Lecker, Thomson/Nelson, Toronto: 2007
• “An Animal to the Memory”, Making a Difference: Canadian Multicultural Literatures in English, 2nd Edition, p. 497-503, edited by Smaro Kamboureli, Oxford University Press, Toronto: 2007
• “Tapka”, Style and Substance 2nd edition, p. 152-159, edited by Claudia Rock and Suneeti Phadke, Pearson/Longman, Saint-Laurent: 2007
• “A New Gravestone for an Old Grave”, The Best American Short Stories 2006, p. 259-290, edited by Ann Patchett, Houghton Mifflin, Boston: 2006
• “The Russian Riviera”, TOK Book 1: Diaspora Dialogues, p. 1-33, edited by Helen Walsh, Zephyr Press, Toronto: 2006
• “Natasha”, Best American Short Stories 2005, p. 318-338, edited by Michael Chabon, Houghton Mifflin, Boston: 2005

Fiction and Essays in Newspapers and Magazines

• “Pickled Cabbage”, The New Yorker, November 22, 2010 p.66
• “Next Year In Cleveland: Soviet Jewry’s Exodus and Diaspora”, Harper’s Magazine, November 2010, p. 81-86
• “*The Train of Their Departure”, The New Yorker, August 9, 2010, p. 61-69
• “On George Grosz’s A Small Yes and a Big No”, Goethe-Institut Toronto: Canadian Authors Present Their Favourite German Authors, Spring 2009
• “Hannukah”, (reprint from Dec. 2006) Nextbook.org, December 4, 2007
• “*The Proposition”, Harper’s Magazine, September 2007, p. 80-84
• “On Literary Love: Leonard Michaels”, Nextbook.org, May 22, 2007
• “Requiem For My Grandfather, Jakov Milner, Zionist”, Guilt and Pleasure Magazine, No. 4, Spring 2007, p. 35-41
• “From Riga With Latkes”, Canadian House and Home, November 2006, p. 102-106
• “The Classic Suit That Says ‘I Do’”, Men’s Health, September 2006, p. 18-24
• “Destination: Montreal”, Salon.com, August 10, 2006
• “On Lolita”, Threepenny Review, Winter 2005, p. 14
• “Reading Machiavelli’s ‘The Prince’”, Salon.com, July 18, 2005
• “*The Russian Riviera”, The New Yorker, May 19, 2005, p. 71-82
• “Introduction”, Mordecai Richler’s Solomon Gursky Was Here, Penguin Canada, Toronto: 2005, xi-xvi
• “*A New Gravestone for an Old Grave”, Zoetrope All-Story, Vol. 9 no. 2, Summer 2005, 42-61
• “*Lubyanka 2 September 1918”, The Walrus Magazine, Summer 2005, p. 53-55
• “Refusenik: Alexander Lerner”, The New York Times Magazine, December 24, 2004, p. 23
• “The Bittersweet Smell of Success”, Details Magazine, September 2004, p. 154
• “Dubbing: Italian Style”, The Walrus Magazine, Field Notes, July 2004, p. 18-19
• “*Natasha”, Harper’s Magazine, May 2004, p. 72-79
• “The Long Road to Kentucky”, Saturday Night Magazine, March 2004, p. 51-54
• “*Choynski”, The Walrus Magazine, November/December 2003, p. 81-86
• “*The Second Strongest Man”, Zoetrope All-Story, Volume 7. No. 2, Summer 2003, p. 91-100
• “*Tapka”, The New Yorker, May 19, 2003, p. 74-79
• “*Roman Berman, Massage Therapist”, Harper’s Magazine, May 2003, p. 69-75
• “*Guynemer”, Grain, Vol. 30, no. 4, Spring 2003, p. 45-56
• “*Minyan”, Prairie Fire, Vol. 23, no. 4 Winter 2002-03, p. 36-47

Stories Adapted for Radio and Stage

“The Proposition”, Symphony Space, Selected Shorts. New York. December 12, 2007. Part of MacDowell Colony Centennial Celebration. National US radio broadcast on NPR.

Narrative and Documentary Films

Victoria Day
87 minutes, 35 mm, 2009
E1 Entertainment Theatrical (Canada)
Writer, Director, Producer

A coming-of-age story set in Toronto in 1988 chronicling a momentous week in the life of a sixteen year-old Russian Jewish boy.

The Genuine Article: The First Trial
The Documentary Channel, Canada
79 minutes, Video, 2003
Writer, Director, Editor

The film follows three Canadian law students and one Bay Street law firm during the intensive and highly competitive summer recruitment period. Shot in a verite style, with the aim of presenting as unmediated a perspective on the events as possible.

The Diamond Nose
The Movie Network, Canada
15 minutes, 16 mm, 2000
Writer, Director

A magical realist story about a Jewish boy who has a nose that is both indestructible and incomparably large.

L.A. Mohel
KCET, Los Angeles
25 minutes, Video, 1999
Writer, Director
Master’s Thesis Film

The film follows three practitioners of the ancient rite of Jewish ritual circumcision, an Orthodox rabbi, a nurse midwife, and a doctor popularly known as “the mohel to the stars.” Through them, the film explores the changing nature of Jewish community, tradition, and culture.

Talks and Presentations (Partial List)

• Reed College, “Visiting Writer Series”, November, 2010
• Wabash College, “Contemporary Canadian Writers”, October, 2010
• York University “Canadian Writers in Person Series”, November, 2009
• The New Yorker Festival, Fiction Reading with Jonathan Franzen, October, 2009
• San Francisco Jewish Book Fair, “Panel on Vasily Grossman” November, 2007
• New York Public Library, “Going Places: The Work of Leonard Michaels” October, 2007
• Columbia University, Creative Writing Program, “The ‘Personal’ in Writing”, October, 2007
• UCLA Armand Hammer Museum, “Summer Reading Series” excerpt from the novel The Free World, work-in-progress, 2007
• 92nd Street Y/Makor, excerpt from the novel The Free World, work-in-progress, April, 2007
• Blue Metropolis Festival, Montreal, April, 2007
• Toronto Public Library “Freedom To Read Week” PEN Canada reading event, February, 2007
• John Carroll University, Cleveland, “Red, White and Read: Canadian Authors Come to Cleveland” Series, February, 2007
• McGill University, Department of Jewish Studies “The Future of North American Jewish Writing” March, 2006
• University of San Francisco, Swig Judaic Studies Program, Reading and Interview, February, 2006
• The New Yorker Festival, Fiction Reading with T.C. Boyle, September, 2005
• Jewish Book Week: London, England, March, 2005
• International Festival Of Authors, Toronto, 2004-05, 2007
• Edinburgh International Book Festival, August, 2004
• Chicago Tribune Printer’s Row Book Fair, June, 2004

 

About

Jeffrey Greene has published five collections of poetry, most recently Beyond Our Means (2016). He is the author of the memoir French Spirits and three personalized nature books, including In Pursuit of Wild Edibles (2016). He is also the author of Shades of the Other Shore, a book of mixed genre writing: sketches, prose pieces, and poetry written in collaboration with painter Ralph Petty. His writing has been supported by the NEA, the Connecticut Commission on the Arts, and Rinehart Fund, and he was a winner of the Samuel French Morse Prize, the Randall Jarrell Award, and the "Discovery"/ The Nation Award. His poems, short stories, and essays have appeared numerous publications, including The New Yorker, Poetry, The Nation, Ploughshares, Agni, Southwest Review and the anthologies Strangers in Paris, Intimacy, and Nothing to Declare: A Guide to Flash Sequence. He is professor at the American University of Paris and mentors for the Pan-European MFA Program.

Teaching Experience

• Director, Creative Writing,The American University of Paris. January 2012-Present.
• Associate Professor, The American University of Paris. 2007-Present.
• Program Director, Creative Writing Program. WICE Paris. 2003-2004.
• Associate Faculty, Goddard College Master of Fine Arts. 2000-2001.
• Associate Professor (tenured), University of New Haven. 1994–99.
• Assistant Professor, University of New Haven. 1988-94.
• Lecturer, English, Southern Connecticut State University. 1987.
• Teaching Fellow, English, University of Houston. 1984-86.
• Assistant to the Director, Lower Division Studies, English
• Department, University of Houston. 1984.
• Non-teaching Fellowship, University of Houston. 1983-84.
• Director of the Basic Writing Program, University of Houston. 1983.
• Assistant to the Director of the Basic Writing Program, U. of Houston. 1982-83.
• Instructor. Golden Gate University. 1980.

Awards & Honors

• Texas Institute of Letters, finalist, best poetry book of 2010.
• Anna Davidson Rosenberg Award, first prize, 2009.
• Samuel French Morse Prize, Northeastern University Press 1998.
• Randall Jarrell Poetry Prize, N. C. Writers’ Network & Parnassus, 1996.
• Coreopsis Books Chapbook Prize, 1995.
• Ann Stanford Poetry Prize, 2nd Place Winner, The Southern California Anthology, 1995.
• The Denver Quarterly National Poetry Competition, 2nd Prize, 1987.
• Brazos Prize in Poetry, 1982.
• Writer in Residence, Connecticut Commission on the Arts, 1978.
• “Discovery”/ The Nation Award, 1977.

 Grants & Fellowships

• Humanities Texas, “A Classroom in Nature Tour,” 2007.
• Chateau de Lavigny International Writers’ Residence Aug.-Oct. 2004
• Vermont Studio Center Fellowship, Aug-Sept. 2000.
• Faculty Research Fund, Book-Length Memoir, University of New Haven, 1998.
• Summer Faculty Fellowship, University of New Haven, 1998.
• National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship, 1996-97.
• Individual Artist’s Grant Connecticut Commission on the Arts, 1992.
• Summer Faculty Fellowship, University of New Haven, 1992.
• Summer Faculty Fellowship, University of New Haven, 1989.
• Stella Ehrhardt Dissertation Fellowship, University of Houston, 1983.
• Mary Roberts Rinehart Foundation Grant, 1977.

 Professional Activities

• Advisory Board: Mirror Visions, 2002-Present
• Writer in Residence. Geneva Writer’s Conference, Jan. 2004.
• Advisory Board: Centro Pokkoli Writing Center, Italy, 2004-2006.
• Advisory Board: The Paris Writers Workshop, 2001-2004.
• Editorial Board: Essays in Arts and Sciences, University of New Haven, 1993-95.
• Co-director, Phoenix: The New Haven Reading Series, The New Haven Historical Society, 1995-96.

 Languages

Greene writes and speaks fluent English and can communicate in French.

Publications

Memoir

• French Spirits.
• William Morrow (US/Canada), 2002.
• HarperCollins (Australia/New Zealand), 2002.
• Prometheus/Bert Bakker (Holland), 2002.
• HarperPerennial (US/Canada) 2003.
• Transworld/Bantam (UK), 2003.
• BBArt (Czech Rep.), 2004.
• Varrak (Estonia), 2004.

Nature Books

• Water From Stone. Texas A&M University Press, 2007; paper 2008.
• The Golden-Bristled Boar: Last Ferocious Beast of the Forest.
  University of Virginia Press, March 2011 (US).
  Robert Hale, July 2011 (UK/Commonwealth)

Poetry

• Beautiful Monsters. Pecan Grove Press, August 2010.
• American Spirituals. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1998. Winner of the Samuel French Morse Prize.
• To the Left of the Worshiper. Cambridge: Alice James Books, 1991.

Poetry Chapbook

Glimpses of the Invisible World in New Haven. Coreopsis Books, 1995. Winner of the Coreopsis Book Prize.

Musical Settings

Across Time, Across Memory. Mirror Visions Ensemble. Albany Classical Records. 2005.

Selected Poetry in Periodicals

• “Sestina for a Cannibal.” Kenyon Review Online (Sept. 2011)
• “Elegy for a Muse.” Southwest Review (2010)
• “A Condensed History with Wolves.” Greensboro Review (2010)
• “Timepiece III.” Paris/Atlantic 2010
• “Beautiful Monsters.” Agni Review (2009)
• “Bath of Yellow Light.” Ploughshares (2009)
• “Timepiece I.” Upstairs at Duroc (2008)
• “Carthage.” Upstairs at Duroc (2007)
• “The Quiet Storm.“ LA Review (2006)
• “Vengeance.” The Café Review (Fall 2005).
• “Retreat at San Teodore.” Pebble Lake Review (2004).
• “Whitman at Falmouth.” Southern Poetry Review (Fall/Winter 2003), 65.
• “Aeneaus in Houston.” Southern Poetry Review (Fall/Winter 2003), 66.
• “Chateau de Chambord.” Sewanee Review (Summer 2002), 373.
• “The Ministering Spirit.” Sewanee Review (Summer 2002), 374.
• “Virginia.” The Greensboro Review 20 (fall 2001) 140.
• “The Evening’s Theme.” Notre Dame Review 12 (Summer 2001) 62-63.
• “Comments on ‘O Magnet South.” Notre Dame Review 12 (Summer 2001) 64.
• “Stevens Reading ‘Orange Buds Mailed from Florida.’” Notre Dame Review 12 (Summer 2001) 65.
• “Alligator Snapper.” Notre Dame Review 12 (Summer 2001) 64.
• “A Thin Gold Chain: a Sequence” The Crab Orchard Review 6:2 (2001) 90-93.
• “The Satellite Dish at the La Quinta Inn” Alaska Quarterly Review 19: 1&2 (2001) 285. 3
• “Electric Boat Corporation” The North American Review 286:5 (2001) 13.
• “Beginnings.” Poetry January 2001 .
• “Greensboro.” Sewanee Review 58:2 (Spring 2000) 181.
• “The Meeting.” Sewanee Review 58:2 (Spring 2000) 181.
• “The Mayor’s Daughter.” Southwest Review 85:1 (2000) 101.
• “The Weather Channel.” Solo 4, 71.
• “Metaphysics at the Yale-New Haven Fertility Clinic.” Elm .
• “The Hidden World.” Elm.
• “On Marriage.” Poetry Northwest 40:1 (1999) 12.
• “An Untruth.” The Southern Review 35:2 (1999) 224.
• “Grand Avenue Lighting.” Connecticut Review (1998).
• “Eryk’s Mobil.” Greensboro Review, 64 (1998) 49.
• “American Spirituals: Artists of the beautiful; Urban Pastoral I;
• Lines on American History; Medicinals; Nature; Signs of the
• Elect; Urban Pastoral II; Aliens; Common Sense; Economics.” Parnassus: Poetry in Review, 22:1,2 (1997): 317-325.
• “What the Bat Sees.” Cream City Review 21:1 (1997): 131.
• “Time Signature.” Puerto Del Sol(1996).
• “Fearsome Wonder.” North American Review 280:3 (1995): 25.
• “The Cherry Tree.” Columbia (1995)..
• “New Haven Spring.” New Virginia Review (1995).
• “Physics.” Ploughshares, 20:1 (1994): 97.
• “The Balance.” Boulevard. 9: 1,2 (1994): 201.
• “A Poem Against an Ending.” JAMA 271:18 (1994): 1382.
• “East Shore, New Haven Harbor.” Pequod 27 (1994): 84.
• “Far Sleep.” Southwest Review 78:3 (1993): 426.
• “Arolla.” Poetry. Sept. (1992): 335.
• “The Awakening.” The Nebraska Review 20:1 (1991-92): 40. “The Design.” Green Mountains Review 5:1 (1991): 88.
• “White Horses.” Green Mountains Review 5:1 (1991): 89.
• “The Octopus.” High Plains Literary Review 6:3 (1991): 75
• “Between Heaven and Hell.” The Literary Review (1990.
• “Arrivals.” River City. 10:1 (1989): 106-107.
• “Love of the Faithless.” Prairie Schooner 63:2 (1989): 117-118.
• “The Separation.” Prairie Schooner 63:2 (1989): 116-117.
• “The Lie.” Crazyhorse 36 (1989): 48-49.
• “The Sunken Cathedral.” Crazyhorse 36 (1989): 46-47.
• “The Horses of Autumn.” Seneca Review 18:2 (1988): 64-65.
• “The Love of Daughters.” The Indiana Review 11:3 (1988): 56-57.
• “The Subtender.” The American Scholar 57:1 (1988): 31-32.
• “A Self-Portrait For Mary.” Denver Quarterly 22:2 (1987): 8-17.
• “The Anatomy of Night.” The Sewanee Review 95:1 (1987): 8.
• “Sail Loft.” The Sewanee Review 95:1 (1987): 9.
• “The Book of Hours.” Yankee (June 1986): 162.
• “On Augusta.” The Antioch Review 44:4 (1986): 436.
• “Islanders After The Surge Wave.” Gulf Coast Review 1:1 (1986).
• “Submarines.” Gulf Coast Review 1:1 (1986).
• “On Crossing the Mojave.” The Memphis State Review 6:1 (1986) 34.
• “Sabbatical.” The Memphis State Review 6:1 (1986): 35.
• “Headlands.” The Manhattan Poetry Review (1986).
• “The Whitestone Bridge.” The Manhattan Poetry Review (1986)
• “Birdwatcher.” Iowa Review 15:1 (1985):32.
• “The Coat.” The Missouri Review 8:3 (1985):20.
• “Fishing Over Birds.” The Black Warrior Review 11:2 (1985): 64-65.
• “From San Francisco.” Domestic Crude 1:4 (1985): 4.
• “Louisiana.” The New Yorker 18 Feb. 1985: 120.
• “Mornings in Texas.” Telescope 4:1 (1985): 16-17. 4
• “St. Valentine’s Day at the Charity Hospital.” MSS (1985).
• “Everything We Feel Has a Body.” Louisville Review 16 (1984): 87.
• “La Clusas.” Crazyhorse 24 (1983): 30.
• “To My Brother.” Crazyhorse 24 (1983): 31.
• “Makeshift.” Tendril 16 (1983): 60-62.
• “The Gathering Toward Evening.” Epoch 32:2 (1983): 119.
• “Weldings.” Epoch 32:2 (1983): 120.
• “On Hearing Harkeness Tower.” CutBank 21 (1983): 6-7.
• “Farmhouse on the Algarve.” CutBank 21 (1983): 8.
• “Beach Rose.” Crazyhorse 22 (1982): 32-33.
• “Night Dive.” The Seattle Review 4:2 (1981): 26.
• “Yards.” Water Table 1 (1980): 50.
• “Moving Into Position.” Water Table 1 (1980): 51.
• “With One Shot.” Water Table 1 (1980): 52.
• “The Extended Night.” Ploughshares 5:2 (1979): 51-52.
• “The Agreement.” The Iowa Review 9:3 (1978): 88.
• “Watch Hill.” The Iowa Review 9:3 (1978): 89.
• “At Dusk.” The Ohio Review 18:3 (1977): 109,
• “Charlestown.” The Nation 12 Nov. 1977: 534.
• “Winter in Plainfield.” The Nation 20 Aug. 1977: 156.
• “Block Island.” The Nation 30 April 1977: 534.
• “Andenne.” The New York Quarterly 29 (1976).
• “Louvain.” The New York Quarterly 29 (1976).
• “Tamine.” The New York Quarterly 29 (1976).
• “Driving Lessons.” The Goddard Journal (Spring 1976): 12.
• “Coming Back.” Wind 5:18 (1975): 26.
• “Elsewhere.” Wind 5:18 (1975): 26.
• “Glimpse.” Graffitti 6 (1976): 40.
• “Moving Inside.” Graffitti 6 (1976): 40.
• “Turning Back.” Graffitti 6 (1976): 41.
• “Phobia.” MidAtlantic Review 1:1 (1975): 31.
• “Trucker’s Wife.” MidAtlantic Review 1:1 (1975):32.

Short Fiction

• “Cooking Octopus with Madame Esteves.” Strangers in Paris (Tightrope Books, 2011)
• “Sadhana.” Web Del Sol Review (Spring 2011)

Anthologies (Poetry)

• “The Evening’s Theme.“ Notre Dame Review Anthology. 2009.
• “A Poem Against an Ending.” Uncharted Lines: Poems from the Journal of the American Medical Association, Boaz Publishing, 1998
• “The Night Gallery”: The Egyptian Exhibition, The Crowd Pleaser,
• Yakutoshi, Religious Artifacts, The Honky Tonk Angel, Prayer, Our
• Lingual Hearts, The Wolfman, Child’s Poem, Mouse Song, The Night
• Flight.” 2nd Prize. Ann Stanford Prize. Southern California Anthology 13 (1996): 126-131.
• “Texarkana.” 1987 National Poetry Competition Anthology. Chester C. Jones Foundation.
• “Book of Hours.” 1986 Anthology of American Poetry & Yearbook of American Verse. Los Angeles: Monitor Books.
• “Farmhouse on the Algarve.” 1985 Anthology of American Poetry & Yearbook of American Verse. Los Angeles: Monitor Books.
• “Weldings.” 1984 Anthology of American Poetry & Yearbook of American Verse. Los Angeles: Monitor Books.

Internet Features

• “Your Lingual Heart.” Featured Poet. Verse Daily, 19 June 2011.
• “Chateau de Chambord.” Featured Poet. Poetry Daily, 1 January 2011.
• Poets’ Round Table: Authors on the Web, 2002. Interview.5
• “Beginnings.” Featured poet. Poetry Magazine Website. January 2001.
• “Beginnings.” Featured poet. Poetry Daily, March 2001.

Interview

“An Interview with Stanley Plumly.” The Writer’s Chronicle. December 2000.

Essays/Review 

• “Iowa & Steak Tartare” University of Iowa Press, 2011.
• “Read Seeds Not Twigs: A Tribute to W.S. Merwin,” Fugue.
• “Elder Poet and Student Seer: The Pupil by W.S. Merwin,” The Sewanee Review,forthcoming.
• “Behind the Curtains.” Late by Cecilia Woloch. On the Bus, 2006.
• “Negative Gravity.” The Southwest Review. 88:4 (2003), 407-423.
• “Layering.” The Seattle Review 8:2 (Fall 1990/Winter 1991): 21-33.
• “Notes From Inside the Bloc.” Reflections: Arts and Sciences
• Newsletter (Spring 1989): 1.

Musical Adaptation

• “Night Gallery,” “Mouse Song,” and “The Octopus” set by Francine Tester and Christopher Berg, New York City College Graduate Center, New Haven High School for the Arts, Princeton University, 2003/4; “Fearsome Wonder,” “Far Sleep,” and “Recovering” Composed by Richard Lalli, Recorded by Mirror Visions. “The Octopus” Francine Trester. Florence Gould Hall, New York City Oct. 15, 1999. “The Bells of Saint-Aignan” Composed by Deborah Fisher Teason, Performed by Mirror Visions, Théâtre Grévin, Paris, March 6, 1995; The New Haven Historical Society, Sept. 1994.

Exhibition

American Spirituals in “POET 2000 Sculpted Library” sponsored by DUBCIT, Dublin, and the European Commission’s CULTURE 2000 Internationale Literaturfestival Berlin and permanent exhibition Dublin.

About

Acclaimed fiction writer Aleksandar Hemon is the author of The Lazarus Project, which was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award. He has also written three collections of short stories: The Question of Bruno,Nowhere Man (also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award), and Love and Obstacles. Born in Sarajevo, Hemon visited Chicago in 1992, intending to stay for a matter of months. During Hemon’s visit, Sarajevo came under siege, and the writer was unable to return home. Hemon wrote his first story in English in 1995. His books have been published in over 20 countries around the world. Hemon was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2003 and a “genius grant” from the MacArthur Foundation in 2004. He lives in Chicago with his wife and daughter.

Teaching Experience

• Winter 2010, Columbia College, Chicago, Writer-in-Residence
• Teaches regularly at Northwestern University School of Continuing Studies
• Fall 2004, University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign, Visiting Professor of Creative Writing
• Winter 2002, Northwestern University, courses in Creative Writing and 20th Century Fiction
• Summer 1999, Loyola University, course in Modernist Poetry

Awards & Honors

• 2009 Award for Adult Fiction for The Lazarus Project from The Society of Midland Authors
• The Lazarus Project was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award and NBCC Award for fiction.
• The Chicago Tribune’s Heartland Prize, 2008
• John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, 2004
• John S. Guggenheim Fellowship, 2003
• Nowhere Man, 2002, shortlisted for National Book Critics Circle Award and Los Angeles Times Book Award
• 2002 Award for Adult Fiction for Nowhere Man from The Society of Midland Authors
• Chicago Public Library Foundation 21st Century Award, 2000
• Illinois Literary Award 1997, 1998
• The radio play based on “The Life and Work of Alphonse Kauders” won Premios Ondas at the radio festival in Barcelona, Spain 1990.

Publications

Novels

• The Lazarus Project (Riverhead), published in 2008

Short Story Collections

• The Question of Bruno (Nan A. Tales/Doubleday, 2000) (www.questionofbruno.com)
• Nowhere Man (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, September 2002) received critical acclaim and was shortlisted for National Book Critics Circle Award and Los Angeles Times Book Award (visit www.aleksandarhemon.com)
• Love and Obstacles (Riverhead), 2009

Short Fiction

• Numerous stories and poems published all around the former Yugoslavia
• Published fiction in The New Yorker, Esquire, Granta, McSweeney’s, TriQuarterly, Chicago Review, Ploughshares, The Baffler, Tin House, The Paris Review, and others.
• “The Life and Work of Alphonse” (which with additional notes appears in The Question of Bruno) appeared in the anthology The Best Yugoslav Short Stories 1990, edited by David Albahari and Mihajlo Pantic
• Various short stories included in Best American Short Stories 1999, 2000; 2006

Book Reviews and Magazine Articles

• Book reviews and various articles for the Chicago Tribune, the Village Voice, the Wall Street Journal, Playboy, the New Yorker, the New York Times, MSN Slate on-line magazine, and other publications.
• The regular biweekly column Hemonwood, in Bosnian, for the Sarajevo magazine BH Dani
• Worked and wrote for Radio-Sarajevo Youth Program and the magazines Valter and Naši Dani, and freelanced for other Sarajevo media

Editing Experience

Edited Best European Fiction, 2010 and 2011 editions (The Dalkey Archive Press).

About

Gwyneth Lewis was appointed Wales’s first National Poet in 2005 and was honored with the task of composing the six-foot-high words displayed on the front of Cardiff’s new Wales Millennium Centre, which is now a national icon. Gwyneth has published 10 books of poetry in Welsh and English, including Sparrow Tree, Parables & Faxes, Keeping Mum, Zero Gravity, Tair mewn Un(“Three in One”), and Y Llofrudd Iaith (“The Language Murderer”). Zero Gravity, inspired by her astronaut cousin, was made into a documentary by the BBC. Her nonfiction books includeSunbathing in the Rain: A Cheerful Book on Depression and Two in a Boat: A Marital Voyage. She has written libretti for two chamber operas for children, an oratorio, and several radio plays, including Stardust: A Love Story, which explains the basic principles of particle physics. Gwyneth has studied at prestigious institutions including Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, and Columbia, and she has received numerous fellowships and awards for her work.

Teaching Experience

Gwyneth is a freelance teacher of Masterclasses and Workshops in poetry and creative nonfiction both in the UK and the US. Gwyneth has also been a Writer in Residence at the School of Physics and Astronomy, Cardiff University.

Prizes & Honors

• 2010, Society of Authors Cholmondeley Award for a distinguished body of work
• 2010-11, Elected to Mary Amelia Cummins Harvey Visiting Fellow Commonership at Girton College, Cambridge
• 2010, Elected Honorary Fellow, University of Liverpool
• 2007, Sunbathing in the Rain radio adaptation wins Mental Health in the Media award
• 2006, Awarded major Creative Wales award by Arts Council of Wales
• 2006, Elected to the Gorsedd of the Bards of the National Eisteddfod of Wales (the highest honour in Welsh-language culture)
• 2005, Appointed Wales’s inaugural National Poet
• 2005, Elected Honorary Fellow, University of Cardiff
• 2004, Named one of Poetry Book Society’s Next Generation poets
• 2004, Sunbathing in the Rain short listed for Mind Book of the Year
• 2001-06, Awarded NESTA Fellowship (National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts)
• 2000, Y Llofrudd Iaith (“The Language Murderer”) awarded Arts Council of Wales Book of the Year
• 1999, Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
• 1999, Zero Gravity short listed for Arts Council of Wales Book of the Year
• 1998, Zero Gravity short listed for Forward Prize
• 1997, Cyfrif Un ac Un yn Dri (“One and One Make Three”) short listed for Arts Council of Wales Book of the Year
• 1996, Elected to Welsh Academy
• 1995, Parables & Faxes awarded Aldeburgh Poetry Festival Prize
• 1995, Parables & Faxes short listed for Arts Council of Wales Book of the Year
• 1994, BAFTA Award for Best Feature television programme
• 1988, Major Eric Gregory Award for poets under 30 years old
• 1986-88, Gertrude Hartley Prize for poetry (Balliol College, Oxford)
• 1982, Laurie Hart Prize for outstanding intellectual work, augmented Charity Reeves Prize
• 1981, Charity Reeves Prize for distinguished performance at university examinations
• 1981, Todd Memorial Senior Scholar (Girton College, Cambridge)
• 1977, 1978, Awarded Literature Medal at Urdd National Eisteddfod

Languages

Welsh (fluent), English (fluent) French (fluent), German (conversational), Spanish (conversational)

Publications

Books

• 2011 Sparrow Tree (Bloodaxe Books)
• 2010, The Meat Tree (Seren) novella
• 2010, A Hospital Odyssey (Bloodaxe Books)
• 2005, Two in a Boat: A Marital Voyage (Fourth Estate), subsequent hardback and paperback editions in US
• 2005, Chaotic Angels (Bloodaxe Books)
• 2005, Tair mewn Un (“Three in One”, Barddas)
• 2002, Sunbathing in the Rain: A Cheerful Book on Depression (Flamingo), subsequent hardback and paperback editions in US
• 1999, Y Llofrudd Iaith (“The Language Murderer”, Barddas)
• 1998, Zero Gravity (Bloodaxe Books)
• 1996, Cyfrif Un ac Un yn Dri (“One and One Make Three”, Barddas)
• 1995, Parables & Faxes (Bloodaxe Books)
• 1990, Sonedau Redsa (“Redsa’s Sonnets”) (Gomer)
• 1978, Ar y Groesffordd (“On the Crossroads”, Urdd pamphlet)
• 1977, Llwybrau Bywyd (“Life’s Paths”, Urdd pamphlet)

Libretti

• 2006, Dolffin, chamber opera for children, music by Julian Philips, commissioned by Welsh National Opera
• 2005, Redflight/ Barcud, chamber opera for children, music by Richard Chew, Welsh National Opera
• 2004, The Most Beautiful Man from the Sea, oratorio based on a short story by Gabriel García Márquez, music by Orlando Gough and Richard Chew, Welsh National Opera

Broadcasting & Journalism

• 2007, Stardust: A Love Story, 45-minute play about particle physics, commissioned by BBC Radio 4
• 2007, The L-Shaped Island, five talks for BBC Radio 4
• 2006, Adaptation of Sunbathing in the Rain for BBC Radio 4
• 2006, How to Knit a Poem, four talks for BBC Radio 4
• 2005, Sailing without a Boat, three talks for BBC Radio 4
• 1992-2007, Freelance feature writer and reviewer for Times Literary Supplement,Independent, Guardian Review, Prospect, Poetry Review
• 1983-88, Freelance reviewer for the New York Times Book Review, the Village Voice and various BBC arts and news programmes

Stage Plays

• 2011, Clytemnestra, new play, Sherman Cymru, Cardiff

Work Experience

• 2009-10, Joint SiCa/ Stanford Humanities Center Fellow in the Arts and Humanities at Stanford University
• 2008-09, Mildred Londa Weisman Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies at Harvard University
• 2006, Writer in Residence at Department of Physics and Astronomy, Cardiff University
• 2000 onwards, Freelance writer
• 1997-2000, Chief Assistant to Controller of BBC Wales
• 1993-97, Television Producer, Factual Programmes BBC Wales
• 1992-93, Assistant Producer, Religious Programmes, BBC Wales
• 1989-92, Television Researcher, Agenda Television

About

Alexandria (Alex) Marzano-Lesnevich is the author of THE FACT OF A BODY: A Murder and a Memoir, recipient of a 2018 Lambda Literary Award, the 2018 Chautauqua Prize, and the Prix France Inter-JDD, an award for one book of any genre in the world. Named one of the best books of the year by Entertainment Weekly, Audible.com, Bustle, Book Riot, The Times of London, The Guardian, and The Sydney Press Herald, it was an Indie Next Pick and a Junior Library Guild selection, long-listed for the Gordon Burn Prize, short-listed for the CWA Gold Dagger, and a finalist for a New England Book Award, a Goodreads Choice Award, and the Grand Prix des lectrices ELLE, and has been translated into eight languages. The recipient of fellowships from The National Endowment for the Arts, MacDowell, and Yaddo, as well as a Rona Jaffe Award, Marzano-Lesnevich has essays published or forthcoming in The New York Times Sunday Magazine, Oxford American, and Harpers. They now live in Portland, Maine and are an Assistant Professor of English at Bowdoin College.

Book

THE FACT OF A BODY: A Murder and a Memoir, a combined work of memoir and literary journalism about a Louisiana murder, was published in May 2017 by Flatiron Books in the US and PanMacmillan in the UK. Translations: Dutch (Hollands Diep), Korean (ChaekSeSang), Chinese—Taiwan (Open Learning), French (Sonatine Editions), Spanish (Liberos Del Asteroide), Greek (Editions Enalios), Portuguese (Grupo Autêntica), and Turkish (Ithaki)

• France Prix Inter 2019 (will be publically announced Jan 10) (French award for one foreign book of any genre per year)
• Chautauqua Prize 2018
• Lambda Literary Award 2018
• National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship 2014
• Rona Jaffe Award 2010
• Named a best book of 2017 by Entertainment Weekly, The Guardian, The Times of London, Book Riot, LitHub, Bustle, and Audible.com, and a best book of 2018 by The Sydney Morning Herald
• Named a “most anticipated” book of 2017 by Buzzfeed, Huffington Post, and Book Riot and a “must-read” for May 2017 by Goodreads, Audible.com, Real Simple, Entertainment Weekly and People
• Indie Next Pick and starred reviews from Publisher’s Weekly, Booklist, and Library Journal
• Longlist, Gordon Burn Prize (UK award for innovative literature)
• Shortlist, CWA Gold Dagger (UK award for crime nonfiction)
• Finalist for a New England Book Award and a Goodreads Choice Award
• Junior Library Guild September 2017 selection
• Audiobook released by Macmillan Audio

Additional Honors, Awards & Citations

2018 Hedgebrook Foundation Residency Fellowship
2016 Dejerassi Residency Fellowship
2016 The Studios at Key West Residency Fellowship
2016 Notable Essay Selection, Best American Essays 2016, “The Taste of Sardines” (also 2015 for “The Trouble with Knives” and 2013 for “Origins of a Murder”)
2016 Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference Scholarship (also 2011)
2015 MacDowell Colony Residency Fellowship (also 2011)
2014 Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts Residency Fellowship
2014 Joan Jakobson Fellowship, Wesleyan Writers’ Conference (also the Jon Davidoff Scholarship in 2009)
2014 Finalist, Arts & Letters, Susan Atefat Prize for Creative Nonfiction, “Bearing”
2013 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Residency
2013 Vermont Studio Center Residency Fellowship
2012 Yaddo Residency Fellowship (also 2011)
2012 Blue Mountain Center Residency Fellowship
2012 Pushcart Prize Nomination, TriQuarterly Online, “Cello”
2011 First Runner-Up, New Letters, The Dorothy Chappell Cappon Prize for the Essay, “Bearing”
2010 Millay Colony for the Arts Residency Fellowship
2010 Alice Hayes Writing Fellowship from the Ragdale Foundation
2010 Finalist, Southeast Review, Short Short Story Contest, “A Clean-Shaven Man”
2009 Winner, Bellingham Review, Annie Dillard Award in Creative Nonfiction, “In the Fade”
2009 Finalist, Arts & Letters, Susan Atefat Prize for Creative Nonfiction, “In the Fade”
2009 Finalist, Gulf Coast, Barthelme Prize for Short Prose, “A Clean-Shaven Man”
2003 Research Assistant to Martha Minow, past Dean of Harvard Law School

Anthology Publications

“They Didn’t Come Here Cowboys,” Waveform: Twenty-first Century Essays by Women (M. Aldrich, ed., The University of Georgia Press, 2016)
“Origins of a Murder,” True Crime (Lee Gutkind, ed., InFACT Books, 2013)

Selected Journal & Magazine Publications

“Letter of Recommendation: Dissecting a Body,” The New York Times Magazine, February 8, 2018
“When Are We Finally Going to Talk About Sexual Assault?” Lenny, October 24, 2017
“Our Bodies Don’t Belong to Us,” LitHub, May 24, 2017
“The Race for Pride in Phnom Penh,” Advocate.com, June 27, 2016
“The Taste of Sardines,” Hotel Amerika, Volume 13, Winter 2015
“Gunpowder,” Los Angeles Review, Volume 18, Fall 2015
“Opal,” poemmemoirstory, Volume 14, 2015
“The Trouble with Knives,” The Iowa Review, Volume 44, Issue 2, Fall 2014
“Towards a Fight,” The Rumpus, June 16, 2014
“The Wrong Kind of Queer,” Salon, January 5, 2014
“Step One,” Alimentum, January 2014
“Origins of a Murder,” Gawker (reprint), September 22, 2012
“Origins of a Murder: Investigating the crimes—and humanity—of a killer,” Oxford American (New South Journalism issue), Issue 78, Fall 2012
“Cello,” TriQuarterly Online, January 16, 2012
“Modern Love: A Twist of Fate,” The New York Times, November 10, 2011
“The Writer and the Psychopath,” Bookslut, October 18, 2011
“Since the Storm,” Connecticut Review, Volume 33, Number 2, Fall 2011 (fiction)
“A Clean-Shaven Man,” Southeast Review, Volume 29 Number 1, Fall 2011 (fiction)
“Longtermers’ Day,” Fourth Genre, Volume 12, Number 2, Fall 2010
“In the Fade,” Bellingham Review, Issue 62, Spring 2010
“A Gated Community,” The Smart Set, April 2, 2010
“Stuck,” Minnetonka Review, Issue 5, Winter 2010 (fiction)

Academic Teaching Experience

Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME
2018 – now
Assistant Professor of English
In Spring 2019, will teach Longform Nonfiction Writing, a course that focuses on narrative journalism and The Art of Creative Research, which focuses on how research can feed the imagination. In Fall 2018, taught Art of the Essay, a course in different forms of the literary essay, and Memoir as Testimony, a first-year seminar that asked students to examine the role of historical and cultural context in their lives. All were creative writing courses for which students read and wrote various forms of creative nonfiction.

Harvard Chan School of Public Health, Cambridge, MA
2017 – 2018
Adjunct Lecturer
Taught Writing Persuasively About Topics in Public Health, a course that framed narrative writing skills as techniques of persuasion. Students wrote personal essays, op-eds, and columns.

Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge, MA
2013 – 2018 Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy
Taught Introduction to Writing for Policy and Politics, a course that framed narrative writing skills as techniques of persuasion. Students wrote personal essays, op-eds, and columns.
• Received “Lunch on the Dean” award, highest teaching recognition available to adjunct faculty, every semester.

Cedar Crest College, Allentown, PA
2012 - 2013
Instructor of Creative Writing
Taught Introduction to Creative Writing (multi-genre), Creative Nonfiction, Fiction Writing, Horror Writing, the Lyric Essay, and Food Writing.

Other Teaching Ecperience

Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA
2018
Instructor
Taught a course on developing family members as characters.

GrubStreet, Inc., Boston, MA
2013 – 2017
Memoir Incubator Program Designer & Instructor
Originated, designed, and was the sole instructor for a ten-month intensive course in writing memoir. Students entered the program with partial manuscripts and wrote and revised, completing drafts of their books. Arranged mentorships for them with published memoirists and prepared them for agent and editor meetings that capped the year.

Cambridge Writing Workshop, Granada, Spain
2017
Instructor
Taught a course on narrating memoir and another on memoir book structure.

24 Pearl Street, online wing of the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA
2017
Instructor
Taught a course on narrating memoir.

Toronto Writing Workshop, University of Toronto, Canada
2016
Instructor
Co-taught a one-week course in creative nonfiction for university faculty.

GrubStreet, Inc., Boston, MA
2010 – 2016
Instructor
Taught 6-week, 10-week, 3-hour, 5-hour, and 2-day courses on various topics in writing personal essays, lyric essays, book-length memoir, and short fiction.

Media Appearances

Selected coverage of The Fact of a Body
Interview, Sharon Harrigan, The Rumpus, September 13, 2017
Interview, Kate Leaver, The Pool (UK), August 18, 2017
Interview, Sarah Fonseca, Lambda Literary, July 26, 2017
Guest, “The New York Times Book Review Podcast” with Pamela Paul, July 21, 2017
Review, Justine Van Der Leun, The New York Times Book Review, July 21, 2017
Review, Diana Anderson-Minshall, The Advocate, July 13, 2017
Review, Alice Bolin, Los Angeles Review of Books, July 9, 2017
Guest, WYPL FM’s “Book Talk” with Stephen Usery, July 6, 2017
Guest, Aspen Public Radio’s “First Draft” with Mitzi Rapkin, June 26, 2017
Review, Julia Bosson, The Rumpus, June 20, 2017
Review, Anthony Gardner, The Tablet (UK), June 17, 2017
Review, Kate Tuttle, Los Angeles Times, June 16, 2017
Review, Redbook, June 2017 issue
Review, Emily Avery-Miller, WBUR’s The ARTery, May 30, 2017
Interview, Tucker Coombe, Los Angeles Review of Books, May 28, 2017
Review, Isabella Biedenharn, Entertainment Weekly, May 26, 2017
Guest, “TK with James Scott” Podcast, May 23, 2017
Review, William Skidelsky, The Observer (UK), May 20, 2017
Interview, Sarah Hughes, The Observer (UK), May 20, 2017
Review, Leah Hager Cohen, The Boston Globe, May 19, 2017
Interview, Chaning Green, Oxford Citizen, May 18, 2017
Interview, Julia Felsenthal, Vogue.com, May 17, 2017
Guest, WNNO’s “The Reading Life” with Susan Larson, May 16, 2017
Review, Victoria Segal, The Sunday Times of London (UK), May 14, 2017
Review, David Aaronovich, The Times of London (UK), May 6, 2017
Review, Gene Warner, The Buffalo News, May 5, 2017
Review, Curve Magazine, March 19, 2017
Review, WAMU’s “Book Picks,” January 3, 2017

Selected Readings & Talks

Miami Book Fair (FL); Texas Book Festival (TX); Boston Book Festival (MA); Brattleboro Book Festival (VT); Adelaide Festival of Writers (AUS); Oregon State MFA Program (OR); Sarah Lawrence College (NY); New York University (NY); Cedar Crest College (PA); Penn Book Center (PA); Creative Nonfiction (PA); Sudbury Public Library (MA); Cambridge Public Library (MA), Point Reading Series (RI); Edinburgh International Book Festival (UK); HMP Thameside (maximum-security prison) (UK); The Riff Raff (UK); Golden Hare Books (UK); In Her Voice Festival (Toronto); Emerson College (MA); MacDowell Downtown (NH); Yaddo Presents (NY); Tewksbury Public Library (MA); Falmouth Public Public Library (MA); Literary Firsts (MA), Booklab (MA); Long Talking Bad Condition Blues (WA); Literary Death Match (Competition Winner) (MA); Queer Text at Dixon Place (NY)

Panels & Paper Prestentations

“True Crime” and “Nonfictive Sex,” NonfictioNow Conference, Phoenix, AZ, 2018
“Life Isn’t a Book Structure: Shaping Memoir” and “Going Public: An Honest
Conversation About Publishing Memoir,” Muse & the Marketplace Conference, Boston, MA, 2017
“Murder She Wrote: Women Writing Violence” and “The New New New Journalism,”
AWP Conference, Washington, DC, 2017
“Shattered Quiet: Women Writers on the Truths and Consequences of Breaking Silence and Writing the Unspoken,” AWP Conference, Los Angeles, CA, 2016
“The Essentials of Suspense,” Muse & the Marketplace Conference, Boston, MA, 2015
“Lives Not Our Own: The Ethics and Practice of Writing the Lives of Others,” AWP Conference, Seattle, WA, 2014
“Strategies for Creating Effective Characters,” Cambridge Public Library, Cambridge, MA, 2014
“The Essentials of Voice” and “Applying to Grants and Residencies,” Muse & the Marketplace Conference, Grub Street, Inc., Boston, MA, 2013
“Applying to Grants and Residencies,” Muse & the Marketplace Conference, Grub Street, Inc., Boston, MA, 2013
“Being Me (For You): First-Time Memoirists & The Agent Hunt,” AWP Conference, Chicago, IL, 2012
“Finding the Time—And Money!—To Write,” AWP Conference, Chicago, IL, 2012
“Romancing the Nursery to Turn the Screw: A Critique of Juvenile Sex Offender
Classification,” Association for the Study of Law, Culture & the Humanities Annual Conference, Boston, MA, 2009
“An Introduction to Capital Jurors’ Experiences,” Law & Society Association Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD, 2006

Service

Lunch Ticket, Judge for the Diana Woods Memorial Award in Creative Nonfiction, 2018
Millay Colony for the Arts, Fiction Selection Jury, 2016-2017 (also Prose, 2011)
Cedar Crest College Visiting Writers’ Series, Curator, 2012-2013
Cedar Crest College, Admissions, Enrollment & Honors Committees, 2012-2013
Ragdale Foundation, Nonfiction Selection Jury, 2011

 

About

Dinaw Mengestu was born in Ethiopia and raised and educated in the American Midwest. He received his bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University and his MFA from Columbia University. Mengestu has received numerous awards and honors as a writer of both fiction and nonfiction works. His first novel, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears, was named a New York Times Notable Book in 2007, and his second novel, How to Read the Air, received the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Mengestu’s nonfiction writing has appeared in Rolling Stone, Jane Magazine, Harper’s, and The Wall Street Journal, among other publications, and includes articles on recent conflicts in Darfur and Uganda. Recently, Mengestu acted as a Distinguished Writer in Residence at Tulane University. He is currently at work on his third novel.

Teaching Experience

• Distinguished Writer in Residence, Tulane University, August 2008-December 2008: “Advanced Fiction Workshop”
• Lannan Visiting Professor, Georgetown University, January 2007-May 2007: “Introduction to Fiction Workshop”
• Adjunct Professor, New York City College of Technology, 2005, Summer: “Introduction to Composition,” USIP Summer Course

Awards & Honors

• New Yorker “20 under 40,” New York, NY 2010
• International Literature Prize Finalist, Berlin, Germany 2010 & 2009
• Athens Prize for Literature Longlist, Athens, Greece 2009
• Los Angeles Times Book Prize, 2008
• New York Public Library Young Lions Award Finalist, 2008
• Dylan Thomas Prize Finalist, Wales, UK 2008
• Seattle Reads Featured Author, May 2008
• Prix du Premier Roman Etranger, France, 2007
• Grand Prix de Lectrices de Elle Finalist, France 2007
• Prix Femina Etranger Deuxieme Selection, France 2007
• National Book Award Foundation, 5 Under 35 Award, 2007
• Guardian First Book Award, UK 2007
• Lannan Fiction Fellowship, 2007
• New York Times Notable Book, 2007
• Guardian Best Books, UK 2007
• New York Foundation for the Arts Fiction Fellowship, 2006
• My Travel Bug Travel Fellowship, 2005
• Departmental Research Fellowship, Columbia University, 2002

Selected Conferences & Lectures

• Earlham College, Freshman Reads Guest Speaker, 2008
• Bethune Cookman University, Writer’s Jubilee (Keynote Speaker), 2008
• Harvard University, Guest Speaker, April 2008
• New York University, Guest Speaker, March 2008
• Hay Book Festival, May 2007
• Edinburgh Book Festival, August 2007
• Georgetown University Lannan Conference, September 2007
• Duke University, Guest Speaker, November 2007

Publications

Fiction

• “An Honest Exit,” New Yorker, July 12, 2010
• How to Read the Air, Penguin Riverhead, October 2010: Foreign rights sold in the UK, France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Sweden, Norway, Denmark
• The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears, Penguin Riverhead, March 2007: Foreign rights sold in the UK, France, Italy, Netherlands, Greece, Spain, Germany, Brazil, Israel, Romania, Bulgaria, Catalan, Portugal, Hungary, Turkey

Nonfiction

• “Storying,” Mentors Monsters & Muses, Simon & Schuster, October 2009
• “Big Money,” Granta, Fall 2009
• “Why the Expats Left Paris, The Wall Street Journal, July 4, 2008
• “Home at Last,” Brooklyn Was Mine, Riverhead Books 2008
• “Children of War,” The New Statesman, June 14, 2007, London, UK
• “A Bend in the River V.S. Naipaul,” The Independent, May 25, 2007, London, UK
• “Aiding Africa,” Farafina 10, August 2007, Lagos, Nigeria
• “Abducted at 14,” Jane Magazine, February 2007
• “The Tragedy of Darfur,” Rolling Stone Magazine, September 21, 2006
• “At the End of Lonely Street,”The New Leader, February 2004

 

PRIZES, FELLOWSHIPS, RESIDENCIES

• Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany, October 2015 – June 2016
• Grimshaw Sargeson Fellowship, New Zealand, August – November 2014
• Visiting Writer, Massey University, New Zealand, March – May 2014
• Summer Residency, Michael King Writers’ Centre, New Zealand, Jan – Mar 2014
• Visiting Writer for Antarctica New Zealand summer season, Antarctica, 2011
• The Royal Society of New Zealand Manhire Prize, New Zealand, 2010
• Bank of New Zealand Katherine Mansfield Premier Award, New Zealand, 2009
• Creative New Zealand Louis Johnson Bursary, New Zealand, 2009
• Landfall Essay Competition winner, Otago University Press, New Zealand, 2008
• Glenn Schaeffer Fellowship, Iowa Writers’ Workshop, 2006-2007

SELECTED EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

• Writer/Editor, United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO),
• Vienna, Austria: various contracts, from Jul 2016 – present
• Poetry Instructor, Write Now, Vienna, Austria, various classes, from 2015 – March 2017
• Fellow, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany, Oct 2015 – Jun 2016
• Associate Editor, The Vienna Review, Vienna, Austria, Mar 2013 – Jan 2014
• Fellow, Grimshaw Sargeson Centre, Auckland, New Zealand, Aug – Nov 2014
• Visiting Writer, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand, March – May 2014
• Visiting Writer, Michael King Writers’ Centre, Auckland, New Zealand, Jan – Feb 2014
• Historian, Waitangi Tribunal, Ministry of Justice, New Zealand Government,Wellington, NZ, Jun 2009 – Dec 2012
• Creative Writing Instructor, Massey University of Wellington, New Zealand, Mar 2009 – Jun 2009
• Academic Writing Instructor, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, Mar 2009 – Jun 2009
• Adjunct Faculty, Kirkwood Community College English Department, Iowa, USA, Aug 2008 – Dec 2008
• Creative Writing Instructor, University of Iowa, Iowa, USA, Aug 2007 – May 2008
• Research Fellow, Stout Centre of New Zealand Studies, Wellington, New Zealand, June – August 2006
• Researcher, Office of Treaty Settlements, Ministry of Justice, Wellington, New Zealand, November 2004 – March 2005; November 2005 – February 2006

RECENT READINGS

• Leipzig Book Fair, Leipzig, Germany, March 26, 2017
• UNESCO World Poetry Day, Brandenburg Gate, Berlin, Germany, March 21, 2017
• Akademie Schloss Solitude, Summer Festival, Stuttgart, Germany, June 24, 2016
• University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom, November 2015
• ANZ Literary Festival, Kings College London, United Kingdom, 2015
• New Zealand International Arts Festival, Wellington, New Zealand, 2014

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

Books

• Nowhere Nearer, Liverpool University Press (UK) and Auckland University Press (New Zealand), forthcoming April 2018
• Blaue Stunde, Edition Solitude, in English with German translation (Germany), 2016
• The Limits, Shearsman (UK) and Auckland University Press (New Zealand), 2014

SELECTED MAGAZINES, JOURNALS, ANTHOLOGIES

• Travel (UK), 2015, “Where Yeats Spoke with Ghosts”
• The Rialto (UK), 2015, “The Hold I Have”, “The Heads”
• Streets of Berlin (GER), anthology, The Reader Berlin, 2015, “The Jars”
• Landfall (NZ), 2015, “The Unclosed Door”; 2014, “Observatory”; “Hunting God”; 2013,
• “Unearth”; 2012, “After Battle”; 2011, “The Dark”, “Wet”, “Maui”
• The Atlantic CityLab (USA), 2015, “Playground”
• Mslexia (UK), 2015, “Saving”; 2014, “As the Crow Flies the Sun Rips Day Open”
• Five Dials (UK), 2014, “Air”, “The Lever”
• Oxford Poetry (UK), 2014, “Eva Braun in Linz”
• Sunday Star Times (NZ), 2014, “Once Removed”
• The Poet’s Quest for God (UK) 2014, anthology, Eyewear, “Burn”
• Boston Review (USA) 2013, “Orbit”
• The American Scholar (USA) 2013, “Letter from Vienna”
• Better (USA) 2013, “A Morning in Troy”
• Narrative Magazine (USA), 2013, “The Hole”, “Earth”, “History”, “Body”
• Booknotes (NZ), 2012, “Falling Out the End of the Earth: Antarctica & the Imagination”
• Shearsman (UK), 2012, “After Battle”
• Poetry Salzburg Review (AT), 2012, “Waiata”, “O”, “What it Takes”
• The Iowa Review (USA) 2012, “The Lakes”, “Yes”, “Terms”
• The Wolf (UK), 2012, “In Season”
• The New Zealand Listener (NZ), 2010, “Dark Energy Beyond the Reception Rooms”
• Hue & Cry (NZ), 2012, “Burn”;
• Sprung Formal (USA), 2011, “You”
• The Seneca Review (USA), 2011, “Takes a War”
• Hue & Cry (NZ), 2011, “Opened Sky”
• The Laurel Review (USA), 2010, “Poem with a Title that Gives Too Much Away”
• Notnostrums (USA), 2, 2008, “Duplicity”; “You Are Not Connected”
• Zoland Poetry (USA), 3, 2008, “Crux Australis”
• Best New Zealand Poems (NZ), 2007, “Hope”
• Sport (NZ), 2007, “Three poems”

THEATRE, RADIO, AUDIO

• Lyrikline, lyrikline.org (GER), forthcoming January 2018, “Nine Poems”
• New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre, Six Pack Sound (NZ), 2015, “Twelve Poems”
• Auckland Theatre Company, Native Affairs (play), 2012
• Royal Society of New Zealand in cooperation with Radio New Zealand, 2013, “A Platform, a
• Particle, and our Whimsical Condition”
• Radio New Zealand, 2011, “Antarctic Diaries”
• Radio New Zealand, 2010, “The Windmill”
• Radio New Zealand, 2008, “Several Small Gulls”

About

Keija Parssinen attended Princeton University, where she studied English literature and received a certificate from the Program for the Study of Women and Gender. She earned her MFA at the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she was a Truman Capote fellow, a Teaching and Writing fellow, and the student editor for the Iowa Short Fiction contest. After finishing the program, she won a Michener-Copernicus award for her debut novel, The Ruins of Us, which was published in the US, UK, Ireland, Australia, South Africa, Italy and around the Middle East. The novel was long-listed for the 2012 Chautauqua Prize. In 2014, Keija was a Visiting Professor of fiction writing at Louisiana State University. Her work has appeared in the Lonely Planet travel-writing anthologies, Five Chapters, the New Delta Review, Salon, Marie Claire and elsewhere.

Keija was born in Saudi Arabia and lived there for twelve years before her family moved to Austin, Texas, where she discovered Tex-Mex, Willie Nelson, and basketball. She played competitively throughout middle and high school, spending many hours on buses traveling the blue highways of Texas to play in gymnasiums that all, inevitably, smelled the same: like Frito pie and cleaning solvent. In many ways, The Unraveling of Mercy Louis is a tribute to all the badass girls she met on that journey: her coaches, the ones on her team, and the few Mercys she played against, the ferocious girls who left her awe-struck as they lit up the scoreboard, as they owned the court, the day, the season, the town.

Currently, Keija directs the Quarry Heights Writers’ Workshop and works with students in Cedar Crest College’s low-residency Pan-European MFA program. She lives in Columbia, Missouri with her husband and son.

 

About

Diana Spechler is the author of the novels Who By Fire (Harper Perennial, 2008) and Skinny (Harper Perennial, 2011), of the New York Times column Going Off, and of a forthcoming nonfiction book based on that column (Crown). She has written for GQ, Esquire, New York, Paris Review, The Wall Street Journal, Tin House, Glimmer Train Stories, and many other publications. She won the Orlando Nonfiction Prize from A Room of Her Own Foundation and has been awarded a number of residencies and fellowships, including a Steinbeck Fellowship from San Jose State University and a fellowship from the Sozopol Fiction Seminars in Bulgaria. Flavorwire named her one of "50 Writers You Need To See Read Live."

Novels

Skinny (Harper Perennial, 2011)
Who By Fire (Harper Perennial, 2008)


Selected Short Published Work

(2016) Among The Healers (Essay) New York Times
(2016) Men In Airport Bars Ask, “What Do You Do?” (Essay) Lenny Letter
(2015) Going Off (Column) New York Times
(2015) Why I Didn't Write Back (Essay) The Butter
(2015) How To Make Love In A Single Room Occupancy (Essay) PANK
(2014) The Matchmaker’s Mouth (Essay) Southern Review
(2014) Things She Said (Essay) Brevity
(2013) Eye-Gazing (Feature) The New York Observer
(2013) Touch (Essay) O, The Oprah Magazine
(2013) Too Shy To Date (Feature) Slate
(2012) Horror Story (Essay) Paris Review
(2012) Drugs, Sweat and Fear (Essay) The New York Times
(2012) My Klonopin Fog (Essay) Salon
(2012) Put Me In, Coach (Feature) GQ
(2011) They See Rich People (Feature) New York Magazine
(2011) The Cure for a Compulsive Helper (reprint) CNN Living
(2011) Selling A Second Novel (Essay) The Wall Street Journal
(2010) Should You Hire a Social Coach? (Essay) Details
(2009) No More Games (Essay) Nerve
(2009) Why Are You Drinking That? (Essay) Esquire Magazine
(2009) Proximity (Short story) Glimmer Train Stories

Honors and Awards

May 2015: 360 Xochi Quetzal Residency
March 2015: Orlando Prize in Creative Nonfiction/Room of Her Own Foundation
February 2015: San Miguel Writers' Conference Creative Nonfiction Award
Summer 2014: Baltimore Review Prize
May 2014: Visiting Artist at The Betsy Hotel
May 2013: Sozopol Fiction Seminars Fellowship
2012 – 2013: LABA Fellow
August 2005 - May 2006: Portsmouth Abbey School Writer-In-Residence Fellowship
August 2004 - May 2005: Steinbeck Fellowship, San Jose State University
June 2003: Writer-In-Residence at The Anderson Center

Teaching (abbreviated list)

2012 – present: Stanford University’s Online Writer’s Studio
2014 – present: Wounded Warrior Project
2008 – 2015: Gotham Writer’s Workshop
2007 - 2009: LIM College

 

 

About

David St. John is an award-winning poet born in Fresno, California. St. John’s work has earned him some of the most prestigious awards for poets, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, several National Endowments for the Arts, and an Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts. He has authored nine collections of poetry, including The Auroras, The Face: A Novella in Verse, Prism, In the Pines: Lost Poems, Study for the World’s Body: New and Selected Poems, Terraces of Rain: An Italian Sketchbook, No Heaven, The Shore, and Hush. St. John has also authored the collection of interviews and essays entitled Where the Angels Come Toward Us, and he has edited numerous poetry anthologies, including The Pushcart Book of Poetry and American Hybrid: A Norton Anthology of New Poetry. His work has also appeared in publications such as The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Poetry, American Poetry Review, Harper’s, and more. St. John has taught creative writing at Oberlin College and Johns Hopkins University and currently teaches at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

Teaching Experience

• Teaching/Writing Fellow, Iowa Writers’ Workshop, The University of Iowa, 1973-74
• Assistant Professor, Department of English, and Acting Director, Department of Creative Writing (Spring 1997), Oberlin College, 1975-77
• Assistant Professor, The Writing Seminars, The Johns Hopkins University, 1977-81
• Associate Professor, The Writing Seminars, The Johns Hopkins University, 1981-87
• Professor, Department of English, The University of Southern California, 1987-present
• Director of Creative Writing, The University of Southern California, 1994-2001
• Director of PhD Program in Literature and Creative Writing, The University of Southern California, 2003-6

Awards & Honors

• The Prix de Rome Fellowship
• The O. B.  Hardison Award from the Folger Shakespeare Library
• Winner, The Nation-Discovery ’75 Contest, sponsored by The Poetry Center of the 92nd Street YM-YWHA and The Nation Magazine; 1975.
• The Great Lakes College Association New Writers Award, awarded to HUSH as the best first book of poetry for 1976.
• National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry; 1976.
• The Johns Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in Poetry; 1977-78 (taken in 1978-79).
• The James D. Phelan Prize, awarded by the San Francisco Foundation to the book THE SHORE; 1980.
• Maryland Arts Council Fellowship in Poetry; 1980.
• The Ingram Merrill Foundation grant in Poetry; 1984.
• National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry; 1984.
• The Rome Fellowship in Literature (Prix de Rome), awarded by The American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters; 1984.
• Phi Kappa Phi Faculty Award, University of Southern California, 1991-1992.
• Creative Writing Faculty of the Year, USCChapter of the English Honor society of Sigma Tau Delta, 1993.
• National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, 1994.
• Nomination: National Book Award in Poetry, 1994, for STUDY FOR THE WORLD’S BODY.
• Nomination: The PEN West Prize in Poetry, 1994, for STUDY FOR THE WORLD’S BODY.
• The Jerome J. Shestack Poetry Prize ($1,000) from The American Poetry Review, 1995.
• Visiting Scholar, The Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities,1998 (Spring/Summer).
• Nomination: The Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Poetry, 1999, for THE RED LEAVES OF NIGHT.
• The Academy Award in Literature, The American Academy of Arts and Letters, 2000.
• The O. B. Hardison Prize in Poetry (Career Achievement in Poetry and Teaching Prize), awarded by The Folger Shakespeare Library of Washington, D. C., 2001.

Professional Listings

• The Centennial Directory of the American Academy in Rome The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Poets
• Contemporary Poets
• Rome Society of Fellows

Languages

• English, French, and Italian

Publications

Authored Books (Poetry)

• THE AURORAS; HarperCollins Publishers, 2012
• HUSH; Houghton Mifflin Company, 1976. Republished by The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985.
• THE SHORE; Houghton Mifflin Company, 1980.
• NO HEAVEN; Houghton Mifflin Company, 1985.
• TERRACES OF RAIN: An Italian Sketchbook (fine press edition with drawings by Antoine Predock); Recursos Books, Santa Fe Literary Arts Center, 1991.
• STUDY FOR THE WORLD’S BODY: New and Selected Poems; HarperCollins 1994.
• IN THE PINES: LOST POEMS, 1972-1997; White Pine Press, 1999.
• THE RED LEAVES OF NIGHT; HarperCollins, 1999.
• PRISM; Arctos Press, 2002.
• THE FACE: A Novella in Verse; HarperCollins, 2004.

Edited Books (Poetry)

• THE SELECTED LEVIS (The Poetry of Larry Levis), edited and with an afterward by David St. John. The University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000.
• AMERICAN HYBRID:A Norton Anthology of the New Poem, edited by David St. John and Cole Swensen. Norton (2008).

Books (Prose)

• WHERE THE ANGELS COME TOWARD US: Selected Essays, Reviews, and Interviews;White Pine Press, 1995.

Limited Edition Books (Poetry)

• FOR LEDIRA; The Penumbra Press, 1973.
• THE OLIVE GROVE; W.D. Hoffstadt & Sons, 1980.
• A FOLIO OF LOST WORLDS; Tropos Press, 1981.
• THE MAN IN THE YELLOW GLOVES; The Penumbra Press, 1985.
• THE ORANGE PIANO; Illuminati, 1987.
• THE FIGURE YOU; Thornwillow Press, 1998.

Translation (Books)

• GOD’S SHADOW, by Reza Baraheni, translated by the author, with David St. John, Burt Blume, & Michael Henderson. The University of Indiana Press, 1976.

Anthologies & Texts (Poetry)

The American Poetry Anthology (1975); The Pushcart Prize IV (1979); Writing Poems (1982, Second Edition 1987); To Make A Poem (1982); Love Stories/Love Poems: An Anthology (1982); The Longman Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry (1983, Second Edition 1989); The Heath Guide to Poetry (1983); Two Decades of New Poets (1984); Divided Light: Father and Son Poems (1984); New American Poets of the 80′s (1984); Songs From Unsung Worlds (1985); The Morrow Anthology of Younger American Poets (1985); Strong Measures: Contemporary American Poetry in Traditional Forms (1985); The Antaeus Anthology (1986) Piecework (1987); Vital Signs: Contemporary American Poetry From The University Presses (1989); The Best American Poetry of 1989 (1989); The Best American Poetry of 1990 (1990); The Forgotten Language: Contemporary Poets and Nature (1991); The Best American Poetry of 1991 (1991); New American Poets of the ’90s (1991); The Best American Poetry of 1992 (1992); One Hundred and One Poems of Romance (1992). Sweet Nothings (1993); The Sarjevo Anthology (1993); What Will Suffice: The Ars Poetica in Contemporary American Poetry (1994); Walk on the Wild Side (1994); Models of the Universe;(1994); Clare/Song (1994); The Pushcart Prize XX (1995); The Writing Path (1995); Grand Passion (1995); The Routledge Anthology of Cross-Gendered Verse (1995); Highway 99 (1996); An Invisible Ladder (1996); The Pushcart Prize XXII (1997); Leaving Home (1997); The Beach Book: A Literary Companion (1998); Outsiders (1998); The Bread Loaf Anthology of Contemporary Poetry (1999); The Geography of Home: California and the Poetry of Place (1999); Orpheus and Company (1999); The Making of a Poem: An Anthology of Poetic Forms (2000); Lighthouse Poems (2000); The Body Electric: The Best Poetry From The American Poetry Review (2000); Contemporary American Poetry (2000). Motion: American Sports Poems (2000); Beyond the Valley of Contemporary Poets (2000); Contemporary American Poetry (7th Edition; 2001;8th Edition, 2006); How Much Earth (2001); Poets of the New Century (2001); September 11, 2001: American Writers Respond (2002); Poems of the American West (2002); Poetry in Motion from Coast to Coast (2002); So Luminous The WIildflowers: An Anthology of California Poets (2003); The Misread City: New Literary Los Angeles (2003);Against Constraints: POETS FOR PEACE ANTHOLOGY (2003); Old Glory: American War Poems from the Revolutionary War to the War in Iraq (2004); The Best Of Poetry Daily (2004); The Janitor at Radio City Music Hall (2005); The Imaginary Poets (2005); Poetry Calender 2006 (2005); Range of Voices (2005); Cloud View Poets (2005); Manthology: Poems on the Male Experience (2005); Words Brushed By Music (2005); The Face of Poetry (2005); Literature: The Human Experience, Ninth Edition (2005); Francis and Clare in Poetry (2005); Lineas Conectados: Nueva poesia de los Estados Unidos (2006); American Alphabets: 25 Contemporary Poets (2006); Third Rail The Poetry of Rock and Roll (2007); American Poets Against the War (2009).

Anthologies, Text or Essay Collections (Prose)

Charles Wright: A Profile (1979); Poets Teaching (1980); Acts of Mind: Conversations With Contemporary Poets (1983); 45 Contemporary Poets: The Creative Process (1985); Contemporary Literary Criticism (1985); The Day I Was Older: Essays on Donald Hall (1989); Conversant Essays: Contemporary Poets On Poetry (1990); Under Discussion: Philip Levine (1990); Spreading the Word: Editors on Poetry (1990); Creative Writing in America: Theory and Pedagogy (1990); Giving Sorrow Words (1990); The Practice of Poetry (1992); The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Poetry in English (1994); So the Wind Won’t Blow It Away (1995); The Point Where All Things Meet (1995); The Point Where All Things Meet: Essays on Charles Wright (1995); Writing It Down For James: Writers on Craft (1995); Poets Reading: The FIELD Symposia (1999); Writing in Flow, (1999). City Secrets: Rome (2000); “Forward,” The Gazer Within: The Selected Prose of Larry Levis,” University of Michigan Press, (2000); “The Poetry of Philip Levine,” Contemporary Literary Criticism, Gale Research, (2002); “Larry Levis: An Afterward”; A Condition of the Spirit: The Life and Work of Larry Levis (2004); “Introduction,” Cloud View Poets (2005); The Imaginary Poets (2005); Poets On Place (2005); High Lonesome: On the Poetry of Charles Wright (2005); Lasting: Poems on Aging (2005);Dark Horses:: Poets on Overlooked Poems (2007); Chafrles Wright in Conversation: Interviews 1979-2006 (2008).

Public Art

• Poetry carved into marble. Lobby. The Junipero Serra Building, State of California General Services, Bldg. Los Angeles.

Magazines (Poetry Published in)

The New Yorker, Poetry, Antaeus, The Paris Review, The Nation, The New Republic, Field, The Partisan Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, The American Poetry Review, The Iowa Review, Boulevard, The Antioch Review and many others.

Essays, Articles & Reviews in Newspapers & Journals

Parnassus, The American Poetry Review, The Washington Post Book World, The Seneca Review, The Antioch Review, The New York Times Book Review, The Los Angeles Times Book World,Field, Open Places, Quarry west, Denver Quarterly,Los Angeles Magazine, The Western Humanities Review and others.

Musical Settings of Poems/Musical Collaborations

• Setting of the poem “Shadow” by famed composer David Diamond, 1977.
• “Winter Fires,” song collaboration with Peter Byrne (from the band Naked Eyes) on the solo album The Real Illusion, 2001 A Different Drum/PJB Music.
• “The Village,” a setting of two poems by David St. John by composer Donald Crockett; premiered in Germany by the Hilliard Ensemble, February 23, 2005.
• The Face, a chamber opera with libretto by David St. John (based on the book of poems:The Face: A Novella in Verse) and composed by Donald Crockett, 2008.

Additional Professional Experience

• Assistant Poetry Editor: The Iowa Review, 1974-75.
• Associate Editor: Field, 1975-77.
• Associate Editor: The Seneca Review, 1977-81.
• Poetry Editor: Intro II, AWP. 1980.
• Preliminary Judge: The Walt Whitman Award of The Academy of American Poets, 1982.
• Consultant in Poetry, United States Military Academy, 1982-94.
• Consultant in Poetry for Wesleyan University Press, 1982-90.
• Contributing Editor: Poet & critic, 1981-89.
• Poetry Editor: The Antioch Review, 1981-96.
• Editor: Poets and Poetry: A Special Issue, The Antioch Review(Winter, 1987).
• Guest Editor: Poetry Pilot (Academy of American Poets) March,1987.
• Editor: Poetry Today, The Antioch Review (Summer, 1990).
• Poetry Book Review Editor: The Antioch Review, 1981-1996.
• Chair: Judging Committee for the PEN Center West Prize in Poetry,1991.
• Judge/Master Poet for Ruth Lilly Scholarship, 1991.
• Editor: Poets and Poetry: A Special Issue, The Antioch Review,(Winter, 1994).
• Judge: “Discovery”/ The Nation Prize, 1994.
• Judge: The Lamont Poetry Prize/James Laughlin Prize, The Academy of American Poets, 1994-1996.
• Co-Editor for Poetry, Pushcart Prize XIX, Best of the Small Presses, 1994.
• Judge: Poetry Society of America, Mary Carolyn Davies Memorial Award, 1995.
• Chair, James Laughlin Prize Committee, The Academy of American Poets, 1996.
• Editor at Large, The Antioch Review, 1996-currently.
• National Advisory Committee, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Foundation, 1997-currently.
• National Advisory Committee, Idyllwild Arts Foundation, 1998-currently.
• National Advisory Board, California Poetry Series, Clapperstick Institute, 1998-currently.
• Judge, The Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, 1998.
• National Advisory Board, The Academy of American Poets Poetry Book Club, 1998-currently.
• Judge (Chair): Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Poetry, 1997-1999.
• Judge, The Ann Stanford Prize, The Southern California Anthology, 1998.
• Chair, James Laughlin Prize Committee, The Academy of American Poets, 1998.
• Advisory Editor, The Academy of American Poets Poetry Book Club, 1998-present.
• Judge (Chair); Poetry; Los Angeles Times Book Prize, 2005-2008.
• Hurst Professor in Creative Writing, Washington University, St. Louis, 2005.
• Visiting Poet, Stadler Poetry Center Summer Seminar, Bucknell University, 2005.
• Contributing Editor, West Branch, 2005-present.
• Editor, Winter 2005-2006, Ploughshares (poems and stories).
• Editor, The Ash Tree Poetry Series, for Tebot Bach Press, 2005-present.
• Editor, represented in The Pushcart Book of Poetry, 2006.
• Judge (Chair): Poetry: PEN USA Prize in Poetry, 2006-2007.
• Judge, Felix Pollack and Brittingham Poetry Prizes, University of Wisconsin Press, 2006.
• Judge (Panel Member) for The National Book Award in Poetry, 2006-2007.
• Judge, Patricia Bibby First Book Prize, Tebot Bach Press, 2006-present.
• The Elliston Chair in Poetry, University of Cincinnati, 2007.
• Mentor, Emerging Voices Program, PEN USA, 2007.

About

Peter Streckfus is the author of two poetry books: Errings, winner of Fordham University Press’s 2013 POL Editor’s Prize, and The Cuckoo, which won the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition in 2003. His poems appear in journals such as The Chicago Review, The New Republic, Seattle Review, and Slate. His awards include fellowships and grants from the Breadloaf Writers’ Conference, the Peter S. Reed Foundation, the University of Alabama, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the American Academy in Rome where he is a Fellow in Literature. He lives in the Washington DC area with his wife, poet and translator Heather Green, and is on the faculty of the Creative Writing Program at George Mason University.