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Sarabande Books
Sarabande Books is an American not-for-profit literary press founded in 1994. It is headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, with an office in New York City. Sarabande publishes contemporary poetry and nonfiction. Sarabande is a literary press whose books have earned reviews in the New York Times. The press was co-founded by Sarah Gorham (President and Editor-in-Chief) and Jeffrey Skinner (Chair). According to a CLMP Newswire interview, "The press was named after an Aztec mating dance that was later adopted and banned in Spain and finally made respectable in Britain. Its mission, according to Gorham, is to publish poetry and fiction and to disburse the works of its authors 'with diligence and creativity.' The press also serves as an educational resource to teachers and creative writing students." The press publishes the winners of its national poetry and fiction competitions, as well as manuscripts accepted through general submission. Sarabande Books titles are distributed by Cons ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Gorham
Sarah Gorham (born March 30, 1954) is an American poet, essayist, and publisher residing in Prospect, Kentucky. Background Gorham was educated at the Ecole D'Humanité, an international boarding school in Switzerland and received her MFA from the University of Iowa in 1978 as well as her BA in 1976 from Antioch College. Gorham is author of four collections of poetry, most recently, ''Bad Daughter'' ( Four Way Books, 2011). Gorham's poems have been widely published, including in ''Best American Poetry 2006'' and ''The Nation''. A memoir, "Alpine Apprentice" (University of Georgia Press, 2017) is a meditation on her time at an international boarding school in the Swiss Alps. In 1994, Sarah Gorham co-founded Sarabande Books, Inc. with her husband, the poet and playwright Jeffrey Skinner. Sarabande Books, is an independent, nonprofit, literary press devoted to the publication of poetry, short fiction, and literary nonfiction located in Louisville, Kentucky. Gorham serves as Pres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cate Marvin
Cate Marvin is an American poet. Life She graduated from Marlboro College, University of Houston, University of Iowa, and University of Cincinnati with a Ph.D. She has taught at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York and Columbia University. She teaches in the English Department of Colby College. Her work has appeared in ''Ploughshares'', ''Fence'', ''The New England Review'', ''Poetry'', ''The Kenyon Review'', ''The Paris Review'', ''The Cincinnati Review'', ''Slate'', ''Verse'', ''Boston Review'', ''Ninth Letter'', and ''TriQuarterly''. Awards * 2000 Kathryn A. Morton Prize, for ''World’s Tallest Disaster'' by Robert Pinsky * 2002 Kate Tufts Discovery Award from Claremont Graduate University. * 2007 NYFA Fellow * 2007 Whiting Awards, Whiting Award * 2015 Guggenheim Fellowship Publications Poems * "I Live Where the Leaves Are Pointed", ''Fishouse'' * "Azalea", ''Fishouse'' * "Monsterful", ''Ploughshares'', Spring 2007 * "Robotripping", ''Ploughshares'', Spri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Association Of Writers & Writing Programs
The Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) is a nonprofit literary organization that provides support, advocacy, resources, and community to nearly 50,000 writers, 500 college and university creative writing programs, and 125 writers' conferences and centers. It was founded in 1967 by R. V. Cassill and George Garrett. History AWP, originally named the Associated Writing Programs, was established as a nonprofit organization in 1967 by fifteen writers representing thirteen creative writing programs. The new association sought to support the growing presence of literary writers in higher education. It accepted both institutional and individual members, and it aimed to persuade the academic community that the creation of literature had a place in the academy as important as the study of literature did. AWP has helped North America to develop a literature as diverse as its peoples. Member programs have provided literary education to students and aspiring writers from all b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Winners Of The AWP Small Press Publisher Award
The Association of Writers & Writing Programs#Small Press Publisher Award, AWP Small Press Publisher Award is an annual prize given each year since 2013 to nonprofit presses and literary journals that recognize the labor, creativity, resourcefulness, and innovation of small publishers. The award is given to a publisher of books in odd years and to a journal in even years. 2020: Birmingham Poetry Review *Ecotone *Terrain.org 2019: Zephyr Press *Green Writers Press *Split Lip Press 2018: Creative Nonfiction (magazine), Creative Nonfiction *Fence *The Normal School *Terrain.org 2017: Coffee House Press *Belladonna *CavanKerry Press 2016: Guernica (magazine), Guernica *Beloit Poetry Journal *Creative Nonfiction 2015: Graywolf Press *Bellevue Literary Press *Coffee House Press *Etruscan Press *Salmon Poetry 2014: One Story, Inc. *The Cincinnati Review *Creative Nonfiction 2013: Sarabande Books *Bellevue Literary Press *Coffee House Press *Red Hen Press References {{Reflist E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norma Farber First Book Award
The Norma Farber First Book Award is given by the Poetry Society of America "for a first book of original poetry written by an American and published in either a hard or soft cover in a standard edition during the calendar year". Poetry Society of America Web site, Web page titled "PSA Annual Awards Guidelines", accessed October 28, 2006 The award was established by the family and friends of the poet and children's book author Norma Farber. The award comes with a $500 prize. Winners {, class="sortable" !Year !Winner !Title !Judge , - , 2020, , Zaina Alsous, , ''A Theory of Birds'' , , Matthew Shenoda , - , 2019, , Anna Maria Hong, , ''Age of Glass'' , , Geoffrey G. O’Brien , - , 2018, , Eve L. Ewing, , ''Electric Arches'' , , Elizabeth Macklin , - , 2017, , Vincent Toro, , ''Stereo. Island. Mosaic.'' , , Natalie Diaz , - , 2016, , Magdalena Zurawski, , '' ompanion Animal' , , Jennifer Moxley , - , 2015, , Cathy Linh Che, , ''Split'' , , Adrian Matejka , - , 2014, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann Townsend
Ann Townsend (born December 5, 1962) is an American poet and essayist. She is the co-founder of VIDA: Women in the Literary Arts and a professor of English and director of the creative writing at Denison University, She has published three original poetry collections and co-edited a collection of lyric poems. Early life Townsend was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She received her B.A. at Denison University in 1985. Townsend attended Ohio State University, where she received an M.A. and Ph.D. Career Since 1992 Townsend has taught modern and contemporary poetry, creative writing, and literary translation at Denison University. She has also taught in the low-residency MFA program at Carlow University. Her poetry and essays have appeared in such magazines as ''Poetry'', ''The American Poetry Review'', ''The Paris Review'', and ''The Nation'', among others. She has received fellowships from the Lannan Foundation, The National Endowment for the Arts, and the Ohio Art ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deborah Tall
Deborah Anne Tall (March 16, 1951 – October 19, 2006) was an American writer and poet. From 1982 until 2006, she was a professor of literature and writing at Hobart and William Smith Colleges and edited the literary journal, ''The Seneca Review''. She is the author of four books of poetry and three works of nonfiction and co-edited the anthology, ''The Poet's Notebook,'' with David Weiss and Stephen Kuusisto. Her most recent book of poems, "Summons," was chosen by Charles Simic to receive the Kathryn A. Morton Poetry Prize and was published by Sarabande Books. Her memoir, "A Family of Strangers," chronicles her search for her father's missing relatives and her struggle to uncover the past her parents have tried to forget. Life Tall grew up in a middle class Jewish family in the Philadelphia suburbs. As a child she studied dance and piano. Her father was an engineer and her mother was a homemaker. She attended the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, intending to major in philos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerald Stern
Gerald Daniel Stern (February 22, 1925 – October 27, 2022) was an American poet, essayist, and educator. The author of twenty collections of poetry and four books of essays, he taught literature and creative writing at Temple University, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Raritan Valley Community College and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. From 2009 until his death, he was a distinguished poet-in-residence and faculty member of Drew University's graduate program for a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in poetry. Stern was a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh and Columbia University and attended the University of Paris for post-graduate study. He received the National Book Award for Poetry in 1998 for ''This Time: New and Selected Poems'' and was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in 1991 for ''Leaving Another Kingdom: Selected Poems''. In 2000, Governor Christine Todd Whitman appointed him the first Poet Laureate of New Jersey. Early life Stern was born in Pittsbur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joan Silber
Joan Silber is an American novelist and short story writer. She won the 2017 National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction and the 2018 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for her novel ''Improvement''. Biography Joan Silber was born in 1945. She grew up in Millburn, New Jersey. She graduated from Sarah Lawrence College and obtained an M.A. from New York University. She taught at NYU and now teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and lives in New York City. Silber's work has been selected for The O. Henry Prize Stories six times—in 2003, 2004, 2007, 2013, 2015, and 2021. It also appeared in the ''Best American Short Stories 2015'', and won The Pushcart Prize. Her writing has appeared in ''The New Yorker,'' ''Ploughshares,'' ''The Paris Review, Tin House, Epoch, The Southern Review, Agni, The Colorado Review,'' and other publications. Published work Novels * ''Secrets of Happiness'' (2021) * ''Improvement'' (2017) * ''The Size of the World'' (W.W. Norton, 2008) * ''Lucky Us'' (Algonquin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lia Purpura
Lia Purpura (born February 22, 1964, Mineola, New York) is an American poet, writer and educator. She is the author of four collections of poems (''King Baby'', ''Stone Sky Lifting'', ''The Brighter the Veil'', ''It Shouldn't Have Been Beautiful''), four collections of essays (''Increase'', ''On Looking'', ''Rough Likeness'', and ''All the Fierce Tethers'') and one collection of translations (''Poems of Grzegorz Musial: Berliner Tagebuch and Taste of Ash''). Her poems and essays appear in ''AGNI'', ''The Antioch Review'', ''DoubleTake'', ''FIELD'', ''The Georgia Review'', ''The Iowa Review'', ''Orion Magazine'', ''The New Republic'', ''The New Yorker'', ''The Paris Review'', ''Parnassus: Poetry in Review'', ''Ploughshares''. ''Southern Review'', and many other magazines. Life A graduate of Oberlin College and the Iowa Writers' Workshop where she was a Teaching/Writing Fellow in Poetry, Lia Purpura is currently Writer-in-Residence at University of Maryland, Baltimore County in Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kiki Petrosino
Kiki Petrosino (born 1979) is an American poet and professor of poetry. She currently teaches at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia. Early life and education Petrosino was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland. After spending two years in Switzerland teaching Italian and English in a private school, she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Virginia (2001), a Master of Arts in humanities degree from the University of Chicago (2004), and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop (2006). Career Petrosino previously taught at the University of Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky, and Spalding University, also in Louisville. Her collection of poetry ''Witch Wife'' was cited by ''The New York Times'' as one of the best works of poetry of 2017. Her work has earned her fellowships such as the Al Smith Fellowship from the Kentucky Arts Council and the 2019 Fellowship in Creative Writing from the National Endowment for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edith Pearlman
Edith Ann Pearlman ('' née'' Grossman; June 26, 1936 – January 1, 2023) was an American short story writer.Edith Pearlman Author Spotlight, Pen/O. Henry Prize Stories Early life and career Pearlman was born in , where she grew up in a middle-class Jewish neighborhood, the daughter of Edna (Rosen) and Herman Paul Grossman, an ophthalmologist. Her father was born in Ukraine, and her maternal grandparents emigrated from Poland. She graduated from Radcliffe College. She has worked in a computer firm and a soup kitchen a ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
