Alex Kuo
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Since receiving a B.A. from Knox College (studied with Sam Moon & Gogisi) and M.F.A. from the University of Iowa (studied with Donald Justice & Philip Roth) in the early 1960s, more than three hundred-and-fifty of his poems, short stories, photographs and essays have appeared in magazines and newspapers, most recently in amerasia journal, Ploughshares and Seattle Post-Intelligencer and in anthologies such as Craig Lesley's Dreamers and Desperadoes, Ishmael Reed's From Totems to Hip-Hop, and Andre Codrescu's American Poets Say Goodbye to the 20th Century.
He has been an administrator and a teacher of writing, literature and ethnic studies at seven American colleges and universities, as well as in China at Peking University, Beijing Forestry University, Jilin University, and Hong Kong Baptist University. In 2002-03 he held the Writer-in-Residence position with Mercy Corps. He is Washington State University's first Writer-in-Residence.
During this period, he has received three National Endowment for the Arts awards, and grants from the United Nations and the Idaho Commission for the Arts for background research in China for his novel Long River. In 1991-92 he taught in China as a Senior Fulbright Scholar, and in 1997-98 in Hong Kong as the Lingnan Visiting Scholar in American Studies. He was awarded a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio residency for 2003-4, and held the position of Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at Knox College in the spring of 2004.
His most recent books are Chinese Opera (novel/1998), This Fierce Geography (poems/1999), Lipstick (short stories/2001), which received the American Book Award, and Panda Diaries (novel, 2006).
