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Subtropics (journal)
''Subtropics'' is an American literary journal based at the University of Florida in Gainesville. Works originally published in ''Subtropics'' have been subsequently selected for inclusion in the ''Best American Poetry'', ''The Best American Short Stories'', ''Best American Nonrequired Reading'', ''New Stories from the Midwest'', ''New Stories from the South'', the ''O. Henry Prize'' anthology, and the '' Pushcart Prize'' anthology. Notable writers who have contributed to this journal include Seth Abramson, Steve Almond, Chris Bachelder, John Barth, Harold Bloom, Peter Cameron, Anne Carson, Billy Collins, Martha Collins, Mark Doty, Lauren Groff, Allan Gurganus, Amy Hempel, Bob Hicok, Roy Kesey, J. M. G. Le Clézio, Les Murray, Edna O'Brien, Lucia Perillo, D. A. Powell, Padgett Powell, A. E. Stallings, Olga Slavnikova, Ben Sonnenberg, Peter Stamm, Terese Svoboda, and Paul Theroux. Background information ''Subtropics'' was founded in 2006, and is the official literary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Leavitt
David Leavitt (; born June 23, 1961) is an American novelist, short story writer, and biographer. Biography Leavitt was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to Harold and Gloria Leavitt. Harold was a professor who taught at Stanford University and Gloria was a political activist. Leavitt graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in English in 1983. After his first book's success, he spent much of the 1990s living in Italy working and restoring an old house in Semproniano in Tuscany with his partner. He has also taught at Princeton University. While a student at Yale, Leavitt published two stories in The New Yorker, "Territory" and "Out Here", both of which were included in his first collection, ''Family Dancing'' (nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award and finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award). Other published fiction includes the short-story collections ''A Place I've Never Been'', ''Arkansas: Three Novellas'' and ''The Marble Quilt'' and the novels ''The Lost Language ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Cameron (writer) (1867–1896), Scottish-American missionary
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Peter Cameron is the name of: * Peter Cameron (entomologist) (1847–1912), English entomologist who specialised in Hymenoptera * Peter Cameron (minister) (born 1945), Scottish-born Church of Scotland minister convicted of heresy by the Presbyterian Church of Australia * Peter Cameron (mathematician) (born 1947), Australian mathematician, joint winner of the 2003 Euler Medal * Peter Cameron (umpire) (born 1951), former umpire in Australian football * Peter Cameron (novelist) (born 1959), American novelist and short-story writer See also * Peter Cameron Scott Peter Cameron Scott (1867–1896) was a Scottish-American missionary and founder of Africa Inland Mission the front runner of Africa Inland Church . Biography Scott was born to a Christian family in Glasgow, which later migrated to the Uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Padgett Powell
Padgett Powell (born April 25, 1952 in Gainesville, Florida) is an American novelist in the Southern literary tradition. His debut novel, ''Edisto'' (1984), was nominated for the American Book Award and was excerpted in ''The New Yorker''. Powell has written five more novels—including ''A Woman Named Drown'' (1987); ''Edisto Revisited'' (1996), a sequel to his debut; ''Mrs. Hollingsworth's Men'' (2000); ''The Interrogative Mood: A Novel?'' (2009); and ''You & Me'' (2012), his most recent—and three collections of short stories. In addition to ''The New Yorker'', Powell's work has appeared in ''The Paris Review'', '' Harper's'', '' Grand Street'', '' Oxford American'', ''The New York Times Book Review'', and other publications. Powell has been a writing professor at the University of Florida since 1984. Awards and honors *1984 American Book Award, nomination, ''Edisto'' *1986 Whiting Award *1987 Rome Fellowship in Literature from The American Academy of Arts and Letters. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucia Perillo
Lucia Maria Perillo (September 30, 1958 – October 16, 2016) was an American poet. In 2000, Perillo was recognized with a "genius grant" as part of the MacArthur Fellows Program. Life and career Perillo was born in Manhattan on September 30, 1958 and grew up in Irvington.Gates, Anita"Lucia Perillo, Whose Illness Shaped Her Poetry, Dies at 58" ''The New York Times'', October 25, 2016. Accessed October 26, 2016. "Lucia Maria Perillo was born on Sept. 30, 1958, in Manhattan and grew up in suburban Irvington, N.Y." Her work appeared in ''The New Yorker'', ''The Atlantic'' and ''The Kenyon Review'', among other magazines. A traditional poet of mostly free-verse personal reflection, she wrote extensively about living with multiple sclerosis in her poems and essays. ''Time Will Clean the Carcass Bones'' was her last book of poetry (Copper Canyon Press, 2016). Her 2012 collection of short fiction, ''Happiness is a Chemical in the Brain,'' was shortlisted for the 2013 PEN/Robert W. Bin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edna O'Brien
Josephine Edna O'Brien (born 15 December 1930) is an Irish novelist, memoirist, playwright, poet and short-story writer. Elected to Aosdána by her fellow artists, she was honoured with the title Saoi in 2015 and the "UK and Ireland Nobel" David Cohen Prize in 2019, whilst France made her Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2021. O'Brien's works often revolve around the inner feelings of women, and their problems in relating to men, and to society as a whole. Her first novel, ''The Country Girls'' (1960), is often credited with breaking silence on sexual matters and social issues during a repressive period in Ireland following the Second World War. The book was banned, burned and denounced from the pulpit. Faber and Faber published her memoir, '' Country Girl'', in 2012. O'Brien lives in London. O'Brien has been mentioned as a candidate for the Nobel Prize in literature. Philip Roth described her as "the most gifted woman now writing in English", while a former ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Les Murray (poet)
Leslie Allan Murray (17 October 1938 – 29 April 2019) was an Australian poet, anthologist, and critic. His career spanned over 40 years and he published nearly 30 volumes of poetry as well as two verse novels and collections of his prose writings. Translations of Murray's poetry have been published in 11 languages: French, German, Italian, Catalan, Spanish, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Hindi, Russian, and Dutch. Murray's poetry won many awards and he is regarded as "the leading Australian poet of his generation". He was rated in 1997 by the National Trust of Australia as one of the 100 Australian Living Treasures.National Living Treasures – Current List, Deceased, Formerly Listed National Trust of Australia (NSW), 22 Augu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roy Kesey
Roy Kesey is an American author. His books include ''Any Deadly Thing'', ''Pacazo'', ''All Over'', ''Nothing in the World'' and an historical guide to the city of Nanjing, China. His short fiction has been included in Best American Short Stories and such journals as ''Subtropics'', ''The Georgia Review'' and '' The Iowa Review''. His story "Double Fish" won the 2009 Jeffrey E. Smith Editors' Prize from ''The Missouri Review. In addition to his work as a writer, Kesey has translated two novels by Pola Oloixarac Paola Caracciolo, better known by her pseudonym, Pola Oloixarac, is an Argentine writer, journalist, librettist and translator. Biography She studied philosophy at the University of Buenos Aires. After finishing her post-graduate studies for Ph ..., ''Savage Theories'' and ''Dark Constellations''. References External linksKesey's website in ''S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Hicok
Bob Hicok (born 1960 Grand Ledge, Michigan) is an American poet. Life Hicok is a professor of creative writing at Virginia Tech. He is from Michigan and before teaching owned and ran a successful automotive die design business. He formerly taught at Western Michigan University. His first book, ''The Legend of Light'', was published by the University of Wisconsin Press and chosen as an American Library Association Booklist Notable Book of the Year. ''Plus Shipping'' followed in 1998. His 2001 ''Animal Soul'' was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He has since published five more books, ''Insomnia Diary'' (2004) ''This Clumsy Living'' (2007) ''Words for Empty and Words for Full'' (2010) with University of Pittsburgh Press, ''Elegy Owed'' (2013) and ''Sex & Love & (2016)'' with Copper Canyon Press. His most recent book, ''Hold'', was published in 2018 by Copper Canyon Press. In 2004, after publishing four collections of poetry, Hicok (who previously had no undergr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amy Hempel
Amy Hempel (born December 14, 1951) is an American short story writer and journalist. She teaches creative writing at the Michener Center for Writers. Life Hempel was born in Chicago, Illinois. She moved to California at age 16, which is where much of her early fiction takes place. She moved to New York City in the mid-seventies. There, she connected with writer and editor Gordon Lish, with whom she maintained a long professional relationship. She formerly was professor of creative writing at the University of Florida. She was the Briggs-Copeland Lecturer of English at Harvard University from 2009 to 2014. Additionally, she teaches fiction in the Low-Residency MFA Program in Writing at Bennington College. She has previously taught at Sarah Lawrence College, Duke University, The New School, Brooklyn College, and Princeton University. She is also a contributing editor at ''The Alaska Quarterly Review''. A dog enthusiast, Hempel is a founding board member of the Deja Foundation. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allan Gurganus
Allan may refer to: People * Allan (name), a given name and surname, including list of people and characters with this name * Allan (footballer, born 1984) (Allan Barreto da Silva), Brazilian football striker * Allan (footballer, born 1989) (Allan dos Santos Natividade), Brazilian football forward * Allan (footballer, born 1991) (Allan Marques Loureiro), Brazilian football midfielder * Allan (footballer, born 1994) (Allan Christian de Almeida), Brazilian football midfielder * Allan (footballer, born 1997) (Allan Rodrigues de Souza), Brazilian football midfielder Places * Allan, Queensland, Australia * Allan, Saskatchewan, Canada * Allan, the Allaine river's lower course, in France * Allan, Drôme, town in France * Allan, Iran (other), places in Iran Other uses * Allan, a Clan Grant split (or sept) * Ahlawat or Allan, an ethnic clan in India * ''Allan'', a 1966 film directed by Donald Shebib * "Allan" (song), a 1988 song recorded by the French artist Mylène F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lauren Groff
Lauren Groff (born July 23, 1978) is an American novelist and short story writer. She has written four novels and two short story collections, including '' Fates and Furies'' (2015), ''Florida'' (2018), and '' Matrix'' (2021). Early life and education Groff was born and raised in Cooperstown, New York. She graduated from Amherst College and from the University of Wisconsin–Madison with a Master of Fine Arts degree in fiction. Career Groff's first novel, ''The Monsters of Templeton'', was published by Hyperion on February 5, 2008 and debuted on the ''New York Times'' bestseller list. It was well received by Stephen King, who read it before publication and wrote an early review in ''Entertainment Weekly''. The novel was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for New Writers in 2008, and was named one of the Best Books of 2008 by Amazon.com and the ''San Francisco Chronicle''. ''The Monsters of Templeton'' is a contemporary tale about coming home to Templeton, a representation of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Doty
Mark Doty (born August 10, 1953) is an American poet and memoirist best known for his work ''My Alexandria.'' He was the winner of the National Book Award for Poetry in 2008. Early life Mark Doty was born in Maryville, Tennessee to Lawrence and Ruth Doty, with an older sister, Sarah Alice Doty. He earned a Bachelor of Arts from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, and received his Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont. Career Doty's first collection of poems, ''Turtle, Swan'', was published by David R. Godine in 1987; a second collection, ''Bethlehem in Broad Daylight'', appeared from the same publisher in 1991. ''Booklist'' described his verse as "quiet, intimate" and praised its original style in turning powerful young urban experience into "an example of how we live, how we suffer and transcend suffering". Doty's "Tiara" was printed in 1990 in an anthology called Poets for Life: Seventy-Six Poets Respond to AIDS. This poem cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |