| Degree: |
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1998 |
| Area Groups: |
Creative Writing; Modernist |
| Major Publications: |
Editor, At the Barriers: On the Poetry of Thom Gunn (Chicago, 2009); From the Book of Giants (Chicago, 2006); The World’s Room (Chicago, 2001).
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| Articles: |
Poems and essays have appeared in publications such as Best American Poetry, Best Jewish Writing, The New York Review of Books, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Review, Yale Review, Southwest Review, Cincinnati Review, The Nation, The Forward, TriQuarterly, Harvard Review, Threepenny Review, Boston Review, Tikkun, The American Scholar, Verse, Pequod, AGNI, and Modernism/Modernity.
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| Teaching & Service: |
Visiting Assistant Professor, English Department, Northwestern University, 1999-2003; Instructor, Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, October 2000 and July 2000; Adjunct Professor, Writing Program, The New School, 1996; Adjunct Professor, English Department, Marymount Manhattan College, 1995; Instructor and Guest Lecturer, English Department, University of California, Berkeley, 1987-1993; Instructor, Freshman and Sophomore Studies Department, UC Berkeley, 1992; Instructor, Philosophy Department, UC Berkeley, 1991; Poetry Editor, Tikkun, 1996-present; Editorial Consultant, Northwestern University Press, 1999-present; Guest Editor, TriQuarterly 120, 2004; Coordinator: The Favorite poem Project Reading, Chicago Public Library, June 2000; Literary Prizes Committee, English Department, Northwestern, 2000; Poetry Editor, Provincetown Arts, 1999; Writing Program Coordinator, Fine arts Work Center in Provincetown, 1996-1999; Coordinator, Mina Loy Tribute Reading, The New School, NYC, 1998; Managing Editor, Shankpainter, 1993-1994; Coordinator, UC Berkeley English Department, Holloway Reading Series, 1991-1992; Assistant Poetry Editor, Tikkun, 1987-1996.
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| Fellowships & Prizes: |
Prix de Rome, American Institute and Academy of Arts and Letters, 2003; Whiting Writers Award, 2002; CAPA Award, U Maryland, 2002; Witter Bynner Fellowship, Library of Congress, 2000; Illinois Arts Council Literary Award, 2000; PEN New England Discovery Award, 1999; Ralph Samuels Fellowship in Poetry, Dartmouth College, 1997; Dean's Dissertation Fellowship, UC Berkeley, 1996-1997; Dissertation Fellowship, Mellon Foundation, 1994-1995; Seven Month Residency Fellowship in Poetry, Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, 1993-1994; Joseph Henry Jackson, Award, San Francisco Foundation, 1992; Eisner Prize in Poetry, UC Berkeley, 1988; Academy of American Poets Prize, Northwestern University, 1985.
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