MFA Faculty |
Cyrus Cassells
(Stanford)
Poetry
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The Mud Actor (Holt, 1982)
Soul Make a Path Through Shouting (Copper Canyon Press, 1994)
Beautiful Signor (Copper Canyon Press, 1997)
More Than Peace and Cypresses (Copper Canyon Press, 2004) |
2006 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
National Poetry Series Prize-The Mud Actor
1994 William Carlos Williams Award and named one of the Best Books of 1994 by Publisher's Weekly- Soul Make a Path Through Shouting
1998 Lambda Literary Award- Beautiful Signor
Lannan Foundation Fellowship
Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship
Peter I.B.Lavan Younger Poet Award from the American Academy of Poets |
Tom Grimes
(MFA Iowa)
Fiction
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A Stone of the Heart (Four Walls Eight Windows, 1990/SMU Press, 1997)
Spec (Iowa Review, Vol. 24:1), Full-length play, produced at The Met Theatre, Los Angeles
Season's End (Little, Brown, 1992/Nebraska, 1996)
City of God (Norton, 1995/Picador, 1996/Gallimard, 1998)
The Workshop (Hyperion, 1999)
WILL@epicqwest.com (Ludlow Press/Gallimard, 2003).
Mentor: A Memoir (Tin House Books, 2010)
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www.tomgrimes.org |
Ogaga Ifowodo
(MFA Cornell)
Poetry
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Homeland and Other Poems (Kraft Books, 1998; Africa World Press, 2008)
The Oil Lamp (Africa World Press, 2005)
Madiba (Africa World Press, 2003)
Homeland (German-English selected poems, Karen Clark, Trans. Edition Solitude, 1999) |
2005 Association of Nigerian Authors/Gabriel Okara poetry prize — The Oil Lamp
2003 Association of Nigerian Authors/Cadbury Prize — Madiba
2000 Fellow of the Iowa Writing Program
1998 Barbara Goldsmith Freedom-to-Write Award, American PEN Center
1998 Free Word Award of the Netherlands-based Poets of All Nations/Poetry Rotterdam Award
1993 Association of Nigerian Authors Poetry Prize — Homeland and Other Poems |
Roger Jones
(PhD Oklahoma State)
Poetry
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Remembering New London (Texas Review Press, 1981)
Strata (Texas Review Press, 1993)
Are We There Yet? (Texas Review Press, 2006)
Poems in various journals, including Southern Poetry Review, Hawaii Review, Poet Lore, Louisiana Literature, Baltimore Review, Hawaii Pacific Review, TexasReview, Arkansas Review, and others |
1984 Academy of American Poets Prize |
Debra Monroe
(Ph.D. Utah)
Fiction
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The Source of Trouble (Georgia, 1990/Scribner's, 1995)
A Wild, Cold State(Simon & Schuster, 1995/Scribner's, 1996)
Newfangled (Simon & Schuster, 1998/Scribner's, 2000)
Shambles (SMU, 2004)
On the Outskirts of Normal (SMU Press, 2010) |
1990 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction- The Source of Trouble
1992 John Gardner Fellowship
1995 Best Ten Books selection in Elle- A Wild, Cold State
1998 Borders Bookstores' New Frontiers selection- Newfangled
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Kathleen Peirce
(MFA Iowa)
Poetry
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Mercy (Pittsburgh, 1991)
Divided Touch, Divided Color (Windhover, 1995)
The Oval Hour (Iowa, 1999)
The Ardors (Ausable Press, 2004) |
2007 Guggenheim Fellowship
2006 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
Associated Writing Programs Award in Poetry- Mercy
1993 Whiting Writer's Award
1998 Iowa Poetry Prize, Finalist for the 1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and winner of the William Carlos Williams Award- The Oval Hour |
Nelly Rosario
(MFA Columbia)
Fiction
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Song of the Water Saints (Pantheon, 2002)
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2008 The Sherwood Anderson Award in Fiction
2003 Finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Debut Fiction
2002 Village Voice Literary Supplement 'Writer on the Verge'
2002 PEN/Open Book Award
1997 Hurston/Wright Foundation Award in Fiction |
Steve Wilson
(MFA Wichita State)
Poetry
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Allegory Dance (Black Tie, 1991)
Editor, The Anatomy of Water: A Sampling of Contemporary American Prose Poetry (Linwood, 1992)
The Singapore Express or Faith in the Knowing Hand of the Scientist (Black Tie, 1994)
Editor, The Prose Poem
His work has also appeared in the following:
American Diaspora: Poetry of Displacement,
Like Thunder: Poets Respond to Violence in America, and
Sierra Songs and Descants
Finding My Kerouac (Podcast) |
1994 Fulbright Fellowship
2002 Fulbright Fellowship, Slovenia |
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