2009 Summer Faculty
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Marianne Boruch |
Marianne Boruch has published six books of poetry, most recently Grace, Fallen from (Wesleyan, 2008) and Poems, New and Selected (Oberlin, 2004) as well as two essay collections, In the Blue Pharmacy: Essays on Poetry and Other Transformations (Trinity, 2005) and Poetry's Old Air (Michigan, 1995). Her poems and essays have appeared in numerous periodicals, including The New Yorker, The Paris Review, TriQuarterly, Kenyon Review, American Poetry review, Poetry London, and The Yale Review. Her poems and prose have been included in collections such as Poets of the New Century and American Alphabets. Marianne was Guggenheim Fellow for the 2005-2006 year and has won prizes including the Pushcart, the Terence De Pres Award, residencies at the MacDowell Colony, the Anderson Center, Ragdale and Hall Farm, and poetry fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. She has served as Artist-in-Residence at Isle Royale, our most isolated National Park. For two decades, she has taught in the graduate program at Purdue University where she received the College of Liberal Arts Excellence Award in 2007. Since 1988, she has also taught semi-regularly in the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers. This is her second time on the RopeWalk faculty. |
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Andrew Hudgins |
Andrew Hudgins
has published six books of poetry: Ecstatic in the Poison,
Babylon in a Jar, The Glass Hammer, The Never-Ending, After the Lost
War, and Saints and Stranger. His new book, Shut
Up, You're Fine: Poems for Very, Very Bad Children, will be
published by The Overlook Press in 2009. He is also the author
of a collection of literary essays, The Glass Anvil.
Andrew's work has appeared in numerous literary journals, including
The American Poetry Review, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker,
The Paris Review, and The Southern Review. He was a
Guggenheim Fellow in 2004 and had previously held Wallace Stegner
and Alfred C. Hodder fellowships. Andrew is currently on the
faculty of The Ohio State University. This is his fifth visit
to RopeWalk.
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Erin McGraw |
Erin McGraw's
most recent novel, The Seamstress of Hollywood Boulevard, is
described as "transporting and witty" by Publishers Weekly. Her
previous books include The Good Life, The Baby Tree, Lies of the
Saints, and Bodies at Sea. Her work has appeared in
magazines and journals including The Atlantic Monthly, The
Southern Review, California Quarterly, Kenyon Review, and
Story. Erin's honors and awards include the 1996 Pushcart
Prize, fellowships at MacDowell, Yaddo, and Stanford University, and
the National Society of Arts and Letters Career Award. Erin
teaches English at The Ohio State University. This is Erin's
fourth RopeWalk
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Kyoko
Mori |
Kyoko Mori writes poetry and fiction as well as
nonfiction. Her memoir, The Dream of Water,
describes her journey to make peace with her mother's suicide.
Polite Lies: On Being a Woman Caught Between Cultures, is
a collection of essays about being a Japanese-American in the
Midwest. She has also published the novel Stone Field,
True Arrow and two novels for young adults, Shizuko's
Daughter and One Bird, as well as Fallout, a
collection of poetry. Kyoko teaches nonfiction at George Mason
University and fiction in
the low-residency MFA program at Lesley University. This is her first time at
RopeWalk. |
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Ben Percy |
Benjamin Percy
is the author of a novel, The Wilding (forthcoming from
Graywolf Press in late 2009), and two books of stories, Refresh,
Refresh (Graywolf, 2007) and The Language of Elk
(Carnegie Mellon, 2006). His fiction and nonfiction have been read
on National Public Radio, performed at Symphony Space, and published
by Esquire, Men's Journal, Paris Review, the Chicago Tribune,
Glimmer Train, and Best American Short Stories. His
honors include the 2008 Whiting Writers Award, the Plimpton Prize and a Pushcart Prize. He teaches
in the MFA program at Iowa State University. Ben was featured
in the RopeWalk Reading Series on the USI campus last year.
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