Alexander Kuo
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Alexander Kuo (born 1941 (?) in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American teacher, poet, fiction writer, and essayist[1] of Chinese-American ancestry. He received his B.A. from Knox College in 1961[2] and M.F.A. from the University of Iowa. He is professor of English at Washington State University, which lists him as an example of their "world class faculty."[3] and is the former chair of the Department of Comparative American Cultures[4] (now called Comparative Ethnic Studies).[5] In 2001, WSU named him their first Writer-in-Residence.[6]
He has won multiple National Endowment for the Arts grants, and has held numerous teaching fellowships in China, including a 1989 fellowship at Beijing University, Senior Fulbright Scholar at Changchun University in 1991-92, and a Lingnan Fellow in Hong Kong in 1997-98. He received a Rockefeller Foundation grant for a Bellagio residency. Lipstick and Other Stories won the American Book Award of the Before Columbus Foundation in 2002.[7]
His writing makes demands on the reader in a way comparable to Franz Kafka or Jorge Luis Borges.[8]
He is a mentor to notable Native American writer Sherman Alexie.[9]
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[edit] Notes
- ^ Alex Kuo, "Damming the American West" (2003) http://www.bluefish.org/damming.htm
- ^ Poet Alex Kuo Judges Writing Awards http://www.knox.edu/x4084.xml
- ^ Future Students: Why WSU? http://www.wsu.edu/future-students/why-wsu/wc_kuo.htm
- ^ Natascha Karlova, "On Lipstick, Rodeo Queens, Creative Compatibility, and Making a Difference," Ask. Magazine WSU College of Liberal Arts (December 2002), p.15.
- ^ CAE Homepage http://libarts.wsu.edu/ces/
- ^ WSU Press Release http://www.wsu.edu/NIS/releases4/skh109.htm (June 2001)
- ^ ABE List of Winners http://www.bookweb.org/news/awards/1293.html
- ^ Robert H. Abel, "Review of 'Lipstick and Other Stories'," Asian Review of Books (March 2001).
- ^ WSU Press Release http://www.wsu.edu/NIS/releases2/ct102.htm (January 1999)
[edit] Poetry
- The Window Tree (1974)
- New Letters from Hiroshima, and Other Poems (1974)
- Changing the River (1986)
- This Fierce Geography (1998)
[edit] Fiction
- Chinese Opera (novel, 1998)
- Lipstick and Other Stories (short stories, 2001)
- Panda Diaries (novel, 2006)
