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Notre Dame Review
''The Notre Dame Review'' is a national literary magazine. Founded by the University of Notre Dame, it publishes fiction, poetry and creative non-fiction quarterly. The first issue was published in Winter 1995. Awards Each year ''The Notre Dame Review'' hosts the Sandeen Prize in Poetry and the Sullivan Prize in Short Fiction.http://ndreview.nd.edu/book-prizes/ Prize page at Review website ''The Notre Dame Review'' is available in print and digital formats. Selections from the journal's first ten years of publication were published in ''Notre Dame Review: The First Ten Years'' (University of Notre Dame Press, 2009). Notable contributors Seth Abramson, Jeffery Renard Allen, Robert Archambeau, Ciaran Berry, William Archila, Simeon Berry, Anne Blonstein, Corinne Demas, Regina Derieva, John Drexel, Debra Di Blasi, Eckhard Gerdes, Laura Gray-Street, Seamus Heaney, Harriet McBryde Johnson, Kelly Le Fave, Stacey Levine, Moira Linehan, Sheryl Luna, Valerie Martínez, Nadine M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William O'Rourke
William O'Rourke (born December 4, 1945) is an American writer of both novels and volumes of nonfiction; he is the author of the novels ''The Meekness of Isaac'' (Thomas Y. Crowell, Co., 1974), ''Idle Hands'' (Delacorte Press, 1981), ''Criminal Tendencies'' (E. P. Dutton, 1987), and ''Notts'' (Marlowe & Co, 1996), as well as the nonfiction books, ''The Harrisburg 7 and the New Catholic Left'' (Thomas Y. Crowell, Co., 1972), ''Signs of the Literary Times: Essays, Reviews, Profiles'' (SUNY Press, 1993), and ''On Having a Heart Attack: A Medical Memoir'' (U of Notre Dame P, 2006). He is the editor of ''On the Job: Fiction About Work by Contemporary American Writers'' (Random House, 1977) and the co-editor of ''Notre Dame Review: The First Ten Years'' (U of Notre Dame P, 2009). His book, ''Campaign America '96: The View From the Couch'', first published in 1997 (Marlowe & Co.), was reissued in paperback with a new, updated epilogue in 2000. A sequel, ''Campaign America 2000: The Vie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eckhard Gerdes
Eckhard Gerdes (born 1959) is an American novelist and editor. Life Eckhard Gerdes was born in 1959 in Atlanta, Georgia, and has lived in Switzerland, Germany, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Katanga, the Republic of South Africa, as well as in several locations throughout the United States in Illinois, Georgia, Iowa, Alaska, and California. He has three children and five grandchildren. He earned his MFA in Fiction Writing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He also holds an MA in English from Roosevelt University in Chicago, and a BA in English from the University of Dubuque in Iowa. Work Perhaps best known for his novels, his work reflects experimental technique, sometimes ignoring time, space, or cause-and-effect, in the service of stories of individuals struggling to transcend fear and limitation. His critical work on modern and post-modern literature has appeared in the Review of Contemporary Fiction, the American Book Review, and, recently, has in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Jane Reyes
Barbara Jane Reyes is an American poet whose work "explores the translatable and untranslatable collisions of writing, self and culture." Early life Reyes was born in Manila, Philippines, and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. She received her B.A. in Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley. As an undergraduate, Reyes "served as editor in chief for ''maganda'' magazine, and witnessed the emergence of Filipino American literary figures." Reyes received her M.F.A. at San Francisco State University. Career Reyes is the author of ''Gravities of Center'' (Arkipelago, 2003), ''Poeta en San Francisco'' (Tinfish, 2005), for which she received the James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets, and ''Diwata'' (BOA Editions, Ltd., 2010). Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous publications, including ''2nd Avenue Poetry'', ''Asian Pacific American Journal'', ''Boxcar Poetry Review'', ''Chain'', ''Crate'', ''Interlope'', '' New American Writing'', ''Nocturnes Review'', '' No ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ricardo Pau-Llosa
Ricardo Pau-Llosa (born May 17, 1954 in Havana, Cuba, lived in the United States since December 1960) is a Cuban-American poet, art critic of Latin American art in the US and Europe, art collector, and author of short fiction. Early life and education Pau-Llosa was born into a working-class family in Havana. In 1960 Pau-Llosa fled Cuba with his parents, older sister, and maternal grandmother — all of whom emerge in his autobiographical poems of exile and remembrance. He graduated from Belén Jesuit Preparatory High School in Miami in 1971, and went on to major in English (literature) at various universities, among them Florida International University (BA, 1974), Florida Atlantic University (MA, 1976), and the University of Florida (1978–1981). Career and writings Following his gradation from Belen Jesuit and during his studies in Florida International University, Pau-Llosa was active in the establishment of the early Latin American art market in South Florida. He frequent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisa Norris
Lisa Norris is an American author and professor. She is the prize-winning author of ''Toy Guns'' and ''Women Who Sleep With Animals''. She is a professor of English and Creative Writing at Central Washington University in Ellensburg, Washington. Biography She has a bachelor's degree in forestry from Virginia Tech, an M.A. in English from Idaho State University, and an MFA in creative writing from American University in Washington, D.C.. Her book ''Toy Guns'' is a collection of short stories written from multiple perspectives. Norris explores violence in the contemporary American culture using a variety of first- and third-person narrative styles, and through an assortment of colorful characters—most of whom are female. The book's focus is on the various ways violent experiences can be articulated: violent threats, acts, memories, suggestions, relationships, games, and other situations dominate the tales spun in Toy Guns. ''Toy Guns'' was published by Helicon Nine Editions in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nadine Meyer
Nadine Sabra Meyer is an American poet. Life Nadine Meyer grew up in Baltimore, MD, where she earned a B.A. in Writing Seminars from the Johns Hopkins University. She earned her M.F.A. from George Mason University and a Ph.D. in English and Creative Writing from the University of Missouri, Columbia. Her forthcoming book of poems, entitled Chrysanthemum, Chrysanthemum, won the Green Rose Prize and will be published bNew Issues Poetry and Prosein spring 2017. Her first book of poems, The Anatomy Theater, won the National Poetry Series, and was published by HarperCollins. Her poems have won the New Letters Prize for Poetry, the Meridian Editor's Prize, and a Pushcart Prize. Nadine is currently an Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at Gettysburg College. She graduated from Johns Hopkins University, George Mason University, and the University of Missouri. Her work has appeared in ''Chelsea'', ''Quarterly West'', ''Notre Dame Review'', ''North American Review' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valerie Martínez
Valerie Martínez (born 1961) is an American poet, educator, arts administrator, consultant, and collaborative artist. She served as the poet laureate of Santa Fe, New Mexico from 2008 to 2010. LifeValerie Martinezwas born and raised in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and descends from 16th century Spanish colonizers as well as indigenous ancestors of the Southwest U.S. She left New Mexico in 1979 to attend Vassar College, where she received her B.A. in English/American literature in 1983. She received her M.F.A. in creative writing/poetry in 1989 from the University of Arizona. Before returning to New Mexico to settle permanently in 2003, Martinez traveled widely in the U.S. and Europe as well as Mexico, Israel, Japan, Zimbabwe, Botswana and South Africa. For three years (1993–1995), she resided in Swaziland, where she taught English in elementary and middle schools. Since 2003 she has traveled to Peru, Germany, Belgium, Russia, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Botswana, and Namibia. Her travels ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sheryl Luna
Sheryl Luna is an American writer. Born and raised in El Paso, Texas, Luna's most recent collection, Magnificent Errors, received the Ernest Sandeen Prize at Notre Dame. The judges were Orlando Menes and Joyelle McSweeney. Luna is the author of '' Pity the Drowned Horses'' ( University of Notre Dame Press, 2005), which was selected by Robert Vasquez as the inaugural winner of the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize. It was a finalist for the Colorado Book Award. Her collection, ''Seven,'' was published b3: A Taos Pressin 2013. It was a finalist for the Colorado Book Award. Luna's poetry has appeared in Poetry', ''Georgia Review'', '' Prairie Schooner'', ''Poetry Northwest'', ''Puerto del Sol'', ''Kalliope'', and the ''Notre Dame Review''. Luna earned a BA at Texas Tech University, an MFA from the University of Texas at El Paso, an MA in English from Texas Woman's University, and a PhD in Contemporary Literature Contemporary literature is literature which is generally set after World W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moira Linehan
Moira Linehan is an American poet born in 1945. She graduated from Boston College, and Vermont College of Fine Arts, with an MFA. She lived in Winchester, Massachusetts, where she worked as an academic administrator. She has been a resident at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Millay Colony. Her work has appeared in ''Alaska Quarterly Review'', ''Green Mountains Review'', ''Indiana Review'', and ''Notre Dame Review'', ''Triquarterly''. Honors and awards * 2006 Crab Orchard Award * 2001 Honorable mention Thomas Merton Prize of Poetry of the Sacred Thomas may refer to: People * List of people with given name Thomas * Thomas (name) * Thomas (surname) * Saint Thomas (other) * Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, and Doctor of the Church * Thomas the A ... Published works * References External links * * * "The Design", ''Verse Daily''* 1945 births Living people Boston College alumni Vermont College of Fine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stacey Levine
Stacey Levine is an American novelist, short story author, and journalist. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, she attended The University of Missouri's journalism school and the University of Washington. Her fiction and criticism have appeared in numerous journals, including ''The Washington .C.Review'', ''Fence'', ''The Denver Quarterly'', ''Tin House'', the ''Notre Dame Review'', the ''Iowa Review'', ''The American Book Review'', ''Nest-A Journal of Interiors'', ''The Seattle Times'', ''Bookforum'', '' The Stranger'', and others. Career She wrote the script for a radio play, ''The Post Office'' (1996), and a one-act play, ''Susan Moneymaker, Large and Small,'' published as a chapbook by Belladonna Books (NYC) and produced in Seattle. She wrote the libretto for an historical puppet opera, ''The Wreck of the St. Nikolai'' (2004); this work was directed and performed in Seattle by cellist Lori Goldston and accordionist Kyle Hanson. In the early-to mid-2000s (decade), Levine, among oth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kelly Le Fave
Kelly Le Fave (born 1959) is an American poet. Childhood and personal life Le Fave was born in Washington, D.C. and grew up in Virginia and Maryland. She has also spent time living in Western Massachusetts. She lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband and two children. Publications Her poems have appeared in '' Tin House'', ''Image'', The ''Notre Dame Review'', ''Painted Bride Quarterly'', ''The Massachusetts Review'' and other journals. Her book manuscript ''Me Comma You'' won the 2002 Gibbs-Smith Poetry Prize, and was published by Gibbs Smith. Editing Le Fave is a founding editor of the internationally distributed literary journal jubilat. Education Kelly Le Fave is a graduate of the MFA Program for Poets & Writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (1999). She received her BA from the University of Virginia in 1981. She also holds an MA in English Language and Literature from Syracuse University (1990). Teaching She has taught writing at Syracuse University, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |