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Michigan Quarterly Review
The ''Michigan Quarterly Review'' is an American literary magazine founded in 1962 and published at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. The quarterly (known as "MQR" for short) publishes art, essays, interviews, memoirs, fiction, poetry, and book reviews as well as writing "in a wide variety of research areas", according to its Web site. Starting in 1979, with a special issue on the subject of "The Moon Landing and Its Aftermath", one issue each year is given over entirely to a special theme. MQR's special issues include "The Automobile and American Culture," "Detroit: An American City," "Contemporary American Fiction," "The Female Body," "The Male Body," and "Bridges to Cuba". In recent years the magazine has published nonfiction by Margaret Atwood, Carol Gilligan, David M. Halperin, Douglas Hofstadter, Maxine Hong Kingston, Toni Morrison, Joyce Carol Oates, Amos Oz, Richard Rorty, John Updike, and William Julius Wilson and fiction by Sergio Troncoso, Elizabeth Gaffney, Bon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khaled Mattawa
Khaled Mattawa (born 1964) is a Libyan poet, and a renowned Arab-American writer, he is also a leading literary translator, focusing on translating Arabic poetry into English. He works as an Assistant professor of creative writing at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States, where he currently lives and writes. Background Khaled Mattawa was born in Benghazi, the second largest city in Libya where he spent his childhood and early teens. In 1979 he emigrated to the United States. He lived in the south for many years, finishing high school in Louisiana at St. Paul's School and completing bachelor's degrees in political science and economics at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. He went on to earn an MA in English and an MFA in creative writing from Indiana University where he taught creative writing. He was a professor of English and Creative Writing at California State University, Northridge. He received his PhD from Duke University in 2009. His wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Gaffney
Elizabeth Gaffney (born New York City, December 22, 1966) is an American novelist. She graduated from Vassar College and holds an MFA in fiction from Brooklyn College. She is the founder of the virtual writers spacThe 24-Hour Room the editor at large of the literary magazine ''A Public Space'' and was a staff editor of ''The Paris Review'' for 16 years, under George Plimpton. She teaches writing at New York University, Queens University of Charlotte, and A Public Space. Publications Novels Elizabeth Gaffney is the author of two novels published by Random House. ''Metropolis'' was published in 2005. ''When the World Was Young'' was published in 2015. Short stories Elizabeth Gaffney has published short stories in various literary magazines including Virginia Quarterly Review, North American Review, Conjunctions and Michigan Quarterly Review The ''Michigan Quarterly Review'' is an American literary magazine founded in 1962 and published at the University of Michigan, An ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacob M
Jacob (; ; ar, يَعْقُوب, Yaʿqūb; gr, Ἰακώβ, Iakṓb), later given the name Israel, is regarded as a patriarch of the Israelites and is an important figure in Abrahamic religions, such as Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Jacob first appears in the Book of Genesis, where he is described as the son of Isaac and Rebecca, and the grandson of Abraham, Sarah, and Bethuel. According to the biblical account, he was the second-born of Isaac's children, the elder being Jacob's fraternal twin brother, Esau. Jacob is said to have bought Esau's birthright and, with his mother's help, deceived his aging father to bless him instead of Esau. Later in the narrative, following a severe drought in his homeland of Canaan, Jacob and his descendants, with the help of his son Joseph (who had become a confidant of the pharaoh), moved to Egypt where Jacob died at the age of 147. He is supposed to have been buried in the Cave of Machpelah. Jacob had twelve sons through four women, h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lauren Belfer
Lauren Belfer is an American author of four novels: '' City of Light'', ''A Fierce Radiance'', ''And After the Fire and'' ''Ashton Hall,'' which was published in June of 2022. Personal life Lauren Belfer was born in Rochester, New York and grew up in Buffalo, New York, where she attended the Buffalo Seminary. The school would later serve as the basis for the girls' school depicted in her debut novel, '' City Of Light'', about Buffalo, NY during the Pan-American Exposition. Belfer majored in Medieval Studies at Swarthmore College (graduated 1975), has an M.F.A. from Columbia University, and worked as a file clerk at an art gallery, a paralegal, an assistant photo editor at a newspaper, a fact checker at magazines, and as a researcher and associate producer at CBS News and on documentary films. She is married to noted musicologist Michael Marissen and lives in Greenwich Village, New York City. She has one child, Tristan. Work Her debut novel, ''City Of Light'', was a ''Ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corinne Demas
Corinne Demas is the award winning author of five novels, two collections of short stories, a collection of poetry, a memoir, two plays, and numerous books for children. She has published more than fifty short stories in a variety of magazines and literary journals. Her publications before 2000 are under the name Corinne Demas Bliss. Personal Corinne Demas grew up in New York City, in Stuyvesant Town, the subject of her memoir''Eleven Stories High, Growing Up in Stuyvesant Town, 1948-1968'' She attended Hunter College High School, graduated from Tufts University, and completed a Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. She lived in Pittsburgh for a decade, teaching at the University of Pittsburgh and at Chatham College. In 1978 she moved to New England and began teaching at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts, where she is now professor emerita of English. A fiction editor of ''The Massachusetts Review'', she is a member of The Authors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Amick
Steve Amick (born February 16, 1964) is an American novelist and short story writer. Career Steve Amick holds a BA in English-writing from St. Lawrence University and an MFA in creative writing from George Mason University. Amick's novels ''The Lake, the River & the Other Lake'' and ''Nothing But a Smile'' were published by Pantheon Books. His short story appearances include ''Zoetrope: All-Story,'' ''Playboy,'' '' The Southern Review,'' ''Michigan Quarterly Review,'' ''McSweeney’s,'' in the anthology ''The Sound of Writing,'' and on National Public Radio. Amick teaches at the Pacific University Low-Residency MFA creative writing program. Works Novels *''The Lake, the River & the Other Lake'' (2005) *''Nothing But a Smile'' (2009) Anthologies *Kwame Dawes, ed. ''When the Rewards Can Be So Great: Essays on Writing and the Writing Life.'' Pacific University Press. (2016) *Keith Taylor and Laura Kasischke, eds. ''Ghost Writers: Contemporary Ghost Stories from Michigan.'' Wayn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Douglas Trevor
Douglas Trevor (born 1969)About DouglasTrevor.com is an American author and academic. He received the Recipients of the Iowa Short Fiction Award and John Simmons Short Fiction Awards — Iowa Center for the Book and was a finalist for the |
Peter Orner
Peter Orner is an American writer. He is the author of two novels, two story collections and a book of essays. Orner holds the Professorship of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College and was formerly a professor of creative writing at San Francisco State University. He spent 2016 and 2017 on a Fulbright in Namibia teaching at the University of Namibia. Early life and education Orner was born in Chicago."Review: Love and Shame and Love by Peter Orner" ''Toronto Star'', John Freeman Jan. 28, 2012 He graduated from the in 1990. He later earned a [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eileen Pollack
Eileen Pollack (born 1956) is an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. She is the former director of the Master of Fine Arts Program at the University of Michigan. Pollack holds an undergraduate degree in Physics from Yale University and an M.F.A in creative writing from the University of Iowa. She received the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award in 1996. She currently divides her time between Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Manhattan. Pollack's ''The Rabbi in the Attic and Other Stories'' (1991) features an Old-World male rabbi and his leftist female successor, and is among the early works of American Jewish literature to prominently feature the inclusion of women rabbis Women rabbis are individual Jewish women who have studied Jewish Law and received rabbinical ordination. Women rabbis are prominent in Progressive Jewish denominations, however, the subject of women rabbis in Orthodox Judaism is more complex. Al ... as literary figures.Zierler, W. (2006). A digni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kalisha Buckhanon
Kalisha Buckhanon (born April 1, 1977) is an American author who writes frequently on literature, race and Black women's themes. She was educated at the University of Chicago and New School University. She is a 2006 recipient of the Alex Awards. Background Born in Kankakee, Illinois, Buckhanon comes from a large middle-class Christian family. She was born when her parents, Kerry and Juwana Buckhanon, were teenagers. Buckhanon began writing as a young woman. She was high school Class President and a community activist as a commitment her parents raised her with. She has remarked she grew up in a time when Black American teenagers were besieged with stereotypes as "crack babies", "welfare moms" and "gangbangers", and she saw her life experiences and voice as ways to "correct misconceptions of Black life for generations to come".Blair, Madeline (May 1, 2008). "A Nuanced Young Black Voice". ''ColorLines''. She found author Toni Morrison's novel '' The Bluest Eye'' at Kankakee Publi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Mountford (author)
Peter Mountford (born July 17, 1976) is an American novelist and writer of short stories and non-fiction. Biography A former adjunct scholar of the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution, Mountford received an MFA in fiction in 2006 from the University of Washington, where he won the David Guterson Prize for a thesis. He was a 2012–14 writer-in-residence for the Richard Hugo House. Published work Mountford's first novel, ''A Young Man's Guide to Late Capitalism'', was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in April 2011. The novel won the 2012 Washington State Book Award in fiction and was a finalist for the 2012 VCU Cabell First Novelist Award. Set in Bolivia and inspired by the author's experiences in Ecuador working at the Tocqueville Institution, it describes the interplay and conflict between the interests of Bolivia and the goals of international financiers. The author discovered that the book was being translated into Russian for a pirate publisher. His second novel, ''The Di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
