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Stegner Fellowship
The Stegner Fellowship program is a two-year creative writing fellowship at Stanford University. The award is named after American Wallace Stegner (1909–1993), a historian, novelist, short story writer, environmentalist, and Stanford faculty member who founded the university's creative writing program. Ten fellowships are awarded every year, five in fiction and five in poetry. The recipients do not need a degree to receive the fellowships, though many fellows already hold the terminal M.F.A. degree in creative writing. A workshop-based program, no degree is awarded after the two-year fellowship. Prior to 1990, many fellows also enrolled in Stanford's now-defunct M.A. program in creative writing. Fellows receive a stipend of $43,000 per year, as well as health insurance and their tuition fee for Stanford. Fellows are required to live close enough to Stanford to be able to attend all workshops, as well as other department-related readings and events. History Stegner founded the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanford University
Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is considered among the most prestigious universities in the world. Stanford was founded in 1885 by Leland and Jane Stanford in memory of their only child, Leland Stanford Jr., who had died of typhoid fever at age 15 the previous year. Leland Stanford was a U.S. senator and former governor of California who made his fortune as a railroad tycoon. The school admitted its first students on October 1, 1891, as a coeducational and non-denominational institution. Stanford University struggled financially after the death of Leland Stanford in 1893 and again after much of the campus was damaged by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Following World War II, provost of Stanford Frederick Terman inspired and supported faculty and graduates' entrepreneu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Johnson (writer)
Adam Johnson (born July 12, 1967) is an American novelist and short story writer. He won the Pulitzer Prize for his 2012 novel, '' The Orphan Master's Son'', and the National Book Award for his 2015 story collection ''Fortune Smiles''. He is also a professor of English at Stanford University with a focus on creative writing. Early life Johnson was born in South Dakota and was raised in Tempe, Arizona. He is part Sioux. Education Johnson earned a BA in Journalism from Arizona State University in 1992, though he studied principally with the fiction writer Ron Carlson. He earned an MFA from the writing program at McNeese State University in 1996, where he studied with Robert Olen Butler and John Wood. In 2001, he earned a PhD in English from Florida State University. Janet Burroway directed his dissertation. Career Johnson is currently a San Francisco writer and professor in creative writing at Stanford University. He founded the Stanford Graphic Novel Project and was named "one o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Talvikki Ansel
Talvikki Ansel is an American poet. She was chosen as a winner by James Dickey, for the Yale Younger Poets Series in 1996. Life She graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 1985, and Indiana University Bloomington. Her poems have appeared in the anthologies ''New Young American Poets'' (Southern Illinois University, 2000) and ''The Pushcart Prize XXVI'', and in magazines such as ''The Atlantic Monthly'', ''The New Republic'', ''The Journal'', ''Poetry'', ''Prairie Schooner'', and ''Shenandoah''. She teaches at the University of Rhode Island. Awards * Lannan Foundation resident, Marfa, Spring 2006. *Stegner Fellowship The Stegner Fellowship program is a two-year creative writing fellowship at Stanford University. The award is named after American Wallace Stegner (1909–1993), a historian, novelist, short story writer, environmentalist, and Stanford faculty mem ... in Creative Writing, from Stanford University *Virginia Commission for the Arts Fellowship. Works ''World'', '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Arthur (poet)
James Arthur (born 1974, in New Haven, Connecticut) is an American-Canadian poet. He grew up in Toronto, Canada. Arthur's poems have appeared in ''The New Yorker, The New Republic, Poetry, Ploughshares'', ''London Review of Books'', ''The Walrus'', and ''The American Poetry Review''. Arthur lives in Baltimore, Maryland and is an associate professor in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. Career He began his career at the University of Toronto, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in English in 1998. He then earned a Master of Arts in Fiction from the University of New Brunswick in 2001 and a Master of Fine Arts in Poetry from the University of Washington in 2003. Arthur taught composition at Northwest Missouri State University. He has also taught as an instructor at the School of Continuing Studies at Stanford University. Arthur is now an Associate Professor in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. He also serves as Director of Graduate Studies. Styl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Molly Antopol
Molly Antopol is an American fiction and nonfiction writer. As of 2016, she is the Jones Lecturer at Stanford University. Her primary research interests include the Cold War and the Middle East. She is married to author Chanan Tigay and lives in San Francisco. Life and career Antopol was born in Culver City, California. Her debut story collection ''The UnAmericans'' was published in February 2014 by W. W. Norton & Company. In 2014, ''The UnAmericans'' was nominated for the National Book Award. Antopol won the 2015 New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award for ''The UnAmericans''. She also won a "5 Under 35" award from the National Book Foundation, the French-American Prize, the California Book Award Silver Medal, and the Ribalow Prize. The book was also a finalist for the PEN/Robert Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction, the National Jewish Book Award, the Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Award, the California Book Award, the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Lite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gregory Abbott
Gregory Joel Abbott (born April 2, 1954) is an American singer, musician, composer and producer. Although he continues to record to date, he is best known for his singles in the mid-1980s including his platinum single, "Shake You Down", from his 1986 debut album. Biography Early life Abbott was born in Harlem, New York. Abbott's parents were from Venezuela and Antigua. During his early years, Abbott's mother taught him how to play piano and encouraged him to develop vocally. Before his career as a musician, Abbott studied psychology at University of California, Berkeley, and creative writing at Stanford; where he won a Wallace Stegner fellowship. Before becoming a musician, Abbott taught as a professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. Music career One of Abbott's first opportunities in his studio was an album for an independent record label, which gave him the opportunity to do a duet with Whitney Houston. Continuing on, Abbott produced for the group EQ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Abbey
Edward Paul Abbey (January 29, 1927 – March 14, 1989) was an American author, essayist, and environmental activist noted for his advocacy of environmental issues and criticism of public land policies. His best-known works include ''Desert Solitaire'', a non-fiction autobiographical account of his time as a park ranger at Arches National Park considered to be an iconic work of nature writing and a staple of early environmentalist writing; the novel ''The Monkey Wrench Gang'', which has been cited as an inspiration by environmentalists and groups defending nature by various means, also called eco-terrorists; his novel ''Hayduke Lives!''; and his essay collections ''Down the River (with Henry Thoreau & Other Friends)'' (1982) and ''One Life at a Time, Please'' (1988). Early life and education Abbey was born in Indiana, Pennsylvania, (although another source names his birthplace as Home, Pennsylvania) on January 29, 1927 to Mildred Postlewait and Paul Revere Abbey. Mildred was a s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thom Gunn
Thomson William "Thom" Gunn (29 August 1929 – 25 April 2004) was an English poet who was praised for his early verses in England, where he was associated with The Movement, and his later poetry in America, even after moving towards a looser, free-verse style. After relocating from England to San Francisco, Gunn wrote about gay-related topics—particularly in his most famous work, ''The Man With Night Sweats'' in 1992—as well as drug use, sex and his bohemian lifestyle. He won major literary awards; his best poems were said to have a compact philosophical elegance. Life and career Gunn was born in Gravesend, Kent, England, the son of Bert Gunn. Both of his parents were journalists. They divorced when he was 10 years old. When he was a teenager his mother killed herself. It was she who had sparked in him a love of reading, including an interest in the work of Christopher Marlowe, John Keats, John Milton, and Alfred, Lord Tennyson, along with several prose writers. In his y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Li-Young Lee
Li-Young Lee (李立揚, pinyin: Lǐ Lìyáng) (born August 19, 1957) is an American poet. He was born in Jakarta, Indonesia, to Chinese parents. His maternal great-grandfather was Yuan Shikai, China's first Republican President, who attempted to make himself emperor. Lee's father, who was a personal physician to Mao Zedong while in China, relocated his family to Indonesia, where he helped found Gamaliel University. In 1959 the Lee family fled Indonesia to escape widespread anti-Chinese sentiment and after a five-year trek through Hong Kong and Japan, they settled in the United States in 1964. Li-Young Lee attended the University of Pittsburgh, the University of Arizona, and the State University of New York at Brockport. Development as a poet Lee attended the University of Pittsburgh, where he began to develop his love for writing. He had seen his father find his passion for ministry and as a result of his father reading to him and encouraging Lee to find his passion, Lee began ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colm Toibin
Colm is a male given name of Irish origin. Colm can be pronounced "Collum" or "Kullum". It is not an Irish version of Colin, but like Callum and Malcolm derives from a Gaelic variation on ''columba'', the Latin word for 'dove'. People *Colm Brogan (1902–1977), Scottish writer *Colm Byrne (born 1971), Irish playwright *Colm Collins, Gaelic football manager * Colm Condon (1921–2008), Irish lawyer *Colm Connolly (born 1942), Irish broadcaster and author *Colm Cooper (born 1983), Irish Gaelic football player *Colm Coyle (born 1963), Irish Gaelic football player and manager *Colm Feore (born 1958), American-born Canadian actor *Colm Hilliard (1936–2002), Irish politician *Colm Imbert (born 1957), Trinidad and Tobago politician *Colm Magner (born 1961), Canadian actor * Colm Mangan (born 1942), Irish general *Colm Meaney (born 1953), Irish actor *Colm Mulcahy (born 1958), Irish mathematician, academic, columnist and author *Colm Ó Cíosóig (born 1964), Irish drummer *Colm O'Go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Pinsky
Robert Pinsky (born October 20, 1940) is an American poet, essayist, literary critic, and translator. From 1997 to 2000, he served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. Pinsky is the author of nineteen books, most of which are collections of his poetry. His published work also includes critically acclaimed translations, Dante Alighieri's ''Inferno'' and ''The Separate Notebooks'' by Czesław Miłosz. He teaches at Boston University. Biography Early life and education Pinsky was born in Long Branch, New Jersey to Jewish parents, Sylvia (née Eisenberg) and Milford Simon Pinsky, an optician. He attended Long Branch High School. He received a B.A. from Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and earned both an M.A. and PhD from Stanford University, where he was a Stegner Fellow in creative writing. He was a student of Francis Fergusson and Paul Fussell at Rutgers and Yvor Winters at Stanford. Personal life Pinsky married Ellen Jane ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bharati Mukherjee
Bharati Mukherjee (July 27, 1940 – January 28, 2017) was an Indian American-Canadian writer and professor emerita in the department of English at the University of California, Berkeley. She was the author of a number of novels and short story collections, as well as works of nonfiction. Early life and education Of Indian Hindu Bengali Brahmin origin, Mukherjee was born in present-day Kolkata, West Bengal, India during British rule. She later travelled with her parents to Europe after Independence, only returning to Calcutta in the early 1950s. There she attended the Loreto School. She received her B.A. from the University of Calcutta in 1959 as a student of Loreto College, and subsequently earned her M.A. from Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda in 1961. She next travelled to the United States to study at the University of Iowa. She received her M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop in 1963 and her PhD in 1969 from the department of Comparative Literature. Career Aft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
