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John C. Zacharis First Book Award
The John C. Zacharis First Book Award honors the best first book of poetry or fiction by a ''Ploughshares'' writer. The award carries a cash prize of $1,500, and feature publication in the "Postscripts" section of the Winter issue. It was started in 1991. References American literary awards Awards established in 1991 American poetry awards Short story awards 1991 establishments in the United States First book awards {{lit-award-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ploughshares
''Ploughshares'' is an American literary journal established in 1971 by DeWitt Henry and Peter O'Malley in The Plough and Stars, an Irish pub in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Since 1989, ''Ploughshares'' has been based at Emerson College in Boston. ''Ploughshares'' publishes issues four times a year, two of which are guest-edited by a prominent writer who explores personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles. Guest editors have been the recipients of Nobel and Pulitzer prizes, National Book Awards, MacArthur and Guggenheim fellowships, and numerous other honors. ''Ploughshares'' also publishes longform stories and essays, known as Ploughshares Solos (collected in the journal's fall issue and published separately as e-books), all of which are edited by the editor-in-chief, Ladette Randolph, and a literary blog, launched in 2009, which publishes critical and personal essays, interviews, and book reviews. History In 1970 DeWitt Henry, a Harvard Ph.D. student, and Peter O'Mall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Sayers Ellis
Thomas Sayers Ellis (born Washington, D.C.) is an American poet, photographer and band leader. He previously taught as an associate professor at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Bennington College in Vermont, and also at Sarah Lawrence College until 2012. Life He was raised in Washington, D.C. and attended Paul Laurence Dunbar High School. In 1988 he co-founded the Dark Room Collective in Cambridge, Massachusetts, an organization that celebrated and gave greater visibility to emerging and established writers of color. He is the leader and a founding member of the band Heroes are Gang Leaders. Ellis received his M.F.A. from Brown University in 1995. Ellis is known in the poetry community as a literary activist and innovator, whose poems "resist limitations and rigorously embrace wholeness." His poems have appeared in magazines such as ''AGNI'' ''Callaloo'', ''Grand Street, Harvard Review, Tin House, Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art,'' and anthologized in ''Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xuan Juliana Wang
Xuan Juliana Wang is a Chinese American writer. She teaches creative writing at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her 2019 short story collection, ''Home Remedies'', won the John C. Zacharis First Book Award and was shortlisted for the Young Lions Fiction Award and the 2020 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize. She earned her MFA from Columbia University and received a Stegner Fellowship to study at Stanford University. Early life and education Xuan Juliana Wang was born in 1985 Heilongjiang, China. Her family moved to Los Angeles when she was seven years old. Wang earned her BA from the University of Southern California. She earned her MFA from Columbia University in 2011 and received a Stegner Fellowship to study at Stanford University from 2011 to 2013. She lived in Beijing for two and a half years in her 20s. During the 2008 Summer Olympics she worked as a translator. Career Wang's work has been published in the ''Pushcart Prize Anthology'', '' The Atlantic'', '' Plough ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaveh Akbar
Kaveh Akbar (کاوه اکبر) is an Iranian-American poet and scholar. Early life and education Akbar was born in Tehran, Iran, in 1989, and grew up across the United States including New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Indiana. He moved to the United States when he was only two years old. Before he moved to the U.S., his parents taught him how to talk by reading Muslim prayers. Akbar received his MFA from Butler University and his PhD in Creative Writing from Florida State University. Works Akbar is a faculty member at University of Iowa. He also teaches in the low residency fine art programs at Randolph College and Warren Wilson College. He is the author of '' Pilgrim Bell'', a collection of poetry, published by Graywolf Press, '' Calling a Wolf a Wolf'', published by Alice James Books in the US and Penguin Books in the UK, and the chapbook ''Portrait of the Alcoholic'', published by Sibling Rivalry Press. American poet Patricia Smith says, “Kaveh Akbar has writ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chemistry (Wang Novel)
''Chemistry'' is a debut novel by Weike Wang, published May 23, 2017 by Knopf. The novel won the PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award in 2018. Reception ''Chemistry'' received positive reviews from ''Kirkus ''Kirkus Reviews'' (or ''Kirkus Media'') is an American book review magazine founded in 1933 by Virginia Kirkus (1893–1980). The magazine is headquartered in New York City. ''Kirkus Reviews'' confers the annual Kirkus Prize to authors of fic ...,'' ''Entertainment Weekly'', ''The New York Times,'' ''The Washington Post'', ''Star Tribune,'' and ''Publishers Weekly.'' ''Library Journal'' ''and HuffPost, Huffington Post'' provided mixed reviews. ''Publishers Weekly'' noted that Wang's "clipped, funny, painfully honest narrative voice lights up" the novel. ''Kirkus'' also applauded Wang's created voice, stating that while the unnamed narrator is "essentially unhinged, [she] is thoughtful and funny... It is her voice—distinctive and appealing—that makes this novel at on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Weike Wang
Weike Wang is a Chinese-American author of the novel ''Chemistry'', which won the 2018 PEN/Hemingway Award. Her fiction has been published in ''Glimmer Train'', the '' Alaska Quarterly Review'', ''Ploughshares'', ''Kenyon Review'', ''The New Yorker'', and ''Redivider''. Life Wang was born in Nanjing, China. Her family emigrated when she was five years old. She lived in Australia and Canada before arriving in the United States with her family at the age eleven. Wang once described the community in which she lived as "a very rural town, and everyone was white. I was the only Asian person in my school." After high school, Wang attended Harvard University, where she studied chemistry for her undergraduate degree and public health for her doctorate. While she was pre-med as an undergraduate, she reconsidered going to medical school. While completing her doctorate, she also attended Boston University, where she received her MFA. Career In 2017, Wang was selected by author She ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danez Smith
Danez Smith is an African-American, poet, writer and performer from St. Paul, Minnesota. They are queer, non-binary and HIV-positive. They are the author of the poetry collections '' nsertBoy'' and ''Don't Call Us Dead: Poems'', both of which have received multiple awards. Their most recent poetry collection ''Homie'' was published on January 21, 2020. Early life and education Smith was born in St. Paul, Minnesota and attended Central High School. They grew up with their mother and grandparents in the Selby Neighborhood. Their family is from Mississippi and Georgia. Smith has said that they struggled with reading up until the third grade. A teacher told them that being able to read would allow them to read video-game magazines, which inspired Smith. Smith was a First Wave Urban Arts Scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, graduating with a BA in 2012. Career Smith is a founding member of Dark Noise Collective with Fatimah Asghar, Franny Choi, Nate Marshall, Aaron S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Reeves
Roger William Reeves (born January 1980) is an American poet and essayist. Life Early life and education Reeves was born and raised in southern New Jersey. He earned a B.A. in English from Morehouse College, an M.A. in English from Texas A & M University, an MFA from the Michener Center for Writers, James A. Michener Center for Creative Writing at the University of Texas at Austin, and a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. Career Reeves' work has appeared in ''Poetry (magazine), Poetry, ''Ploughshares'', ''American Poetry Review, Boston Review'', ''Gulf Coast (magazine), Gulf Coast, Tin House, and The Paris American''.'' His debut collection of poetry, King Me, was published in 2013 by Copper Canyon Press and was honored as a Library Journal “Best Poetry Book of 2013.” His second collection of poetry, Best Barbarian, was published in 2022 by W.W. Norton and became a finalist for the National Book Award. Reeves has been awarded a 2015 Whiting Awards, Whiting Aw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monstress (short Story Collection)
''Monstress'' is a 2012 collection of stories by Lysley Tenorio. Plot In "Monstress", Filipina actress Reva Gogo and her B-Movie director boyfriend go to Los Angeles hoping that an American director can help them be successful. In "Help", a man recruits his nephew to fight the Beatles for being rude to Imelda Marcos. In "Superassassin", an isolated boy writes a biographical report on the Green Lantern Green Lantern is the name of several superheroes appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. They fight evil with the aid of rings that grant them a variety of extraordinary powers, all of which come from imagination, fearlessness, ... and practices being a super-powered avenger with disastrous results. In "Felix Starro", the grandson of a famous Filipino faith healer plans his escape from the family business. In "The Brothers", a man buries his transgender sister with the help of her friend and remembers the brother he lost. In "The View From Culion", a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lysley Tenorio
Lysley A. Tenorio (born Olongapo City, Philippines) is a Filipino-American short story writer. Lysley Tenorio’s stories have appeared in The Atlantic, Zoetrope: All-Story, Ploughshares, Manoa, and The Best New American Voices and Pushcart Prize anthologies. A Whiting Award winner and a former Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, he has received fellowships from the University of Wisconsin, Phillips Exeter Academy, Yaddo, The MacDowell Colony, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Born in the Philippines, he lives in San Francisco, and is an associate professor at Saint Mary’s College of California. He is currently working on a novel. Awards * 2000 Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University * 2002 The Nelson Algren Award for Short Fiction * 2006 Pushcart Prize for "The Brothers" * 2006 NEA Fellowship * 2008 Whiting Award * 2013 Edmund White Award * 2014 ''The Paris Review'' Writer-In-Residence at The Standard Hotel [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christine Sneed
Christine Sneed is an American author — the novels ''Little Known Facts'' (2013), ''Paris, He Said'' (2015), and ''Please Be Advised'' (2022), and the story collections ''Portraits of a Few of the People I've Made Cry'' (2010), ''The Virginity of Famous Men'' (2016), and ''Direct Sunlight'' (2023) — as well as a graduate-level fiction professor at Northwestern University who also teaches in Regis University's low-residency MFA program. She is the recipient of the Chicago Public Library Foundation's 21st Century Award, the John C. Zacharis First Book Award (via '' Ploughshares''), the Society of Midland Authors Award, the 2009 AWP Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction, and the Chicago Writers' Association Book of the Year Award in both 2011 and 2017. Life Born September 24, 1971, Sneed grew up in Green Bay, Wisconsin, and Libertyville, Illinois. She earned an undergraduate degree from Georgetown University, where she studied French language and literature, and a Master of Fine A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Yoon
Paul Yoon (born 1980) is an American fiction writer. In 2010 The National Book Foundation named him a 5 Under 35 honoree. Early life and education Yoon's grandfather was a North Korean refugee who resettled in South Korea, where he later founded an orphanage. Yoon graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy in 1998 and Wesleyan University in 2002. Career His first book, ''Once the Shore'', was selected as a ''New York Times'' Notable Book; a ''Los Angeles Times'', ''San Francisco Chronicle'', ''Publishers Weekly'', and ''Minneapolis Star Tribune'' Best Book of the Year; and a National Public Radio Best Debut of the Year. His work has appeared in the '' PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories'' collection, and he is the recipient of a 5 under 35 Award from the National Book Foundation. His novel, ''Snow Hunters,'' won the 2014 New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award. Recently a part of the faculty of the Bennington Writing Seminars, Yoon is now a Briggs-Copeland lecturer at Harvard Unive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |