Kevin Prufer

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Kevin D. Prufer (born 1969) is an American academic, editor, essayist, and poet.

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[edit] Biography

Prufer was born in Cleveland, Ohio. After receiving a B.A. at Wesleyan University and an M.A. at the Hollins University Writing Program, he went on to earn an MFA at Washington University in St. Louis. He is currently Professor of English in the Department of English and Philosophy at the University of Central Missouri (UCM).[1]

He is also Director of the Creative Writing program at UCM,[2] Editor/Director of Pleiades: A Journal of New Writing,[3] Associate Editor of American Book Review,[4] and Vice President/Secretary of the National Book Critics Circle.[5]

Prufer currently resides in Warrensburg, Missouri with artist and critic Mary Hallab.[6]

[edit] Publications and awards

Prufer has authored four books: National Anthem (Four Way Books, 2008), Fallen from a Chariot (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2005), The Finger Bone (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2002), and Strange Wood (Louisiana State University Press, 1998). He has also edited three anthologies: New European Poets (Graywolf Press), Dark Horses: Poets on Overlooked Poems (University of Illinois Press, 2007, with Joy Katz) and The New Young American Poets (Southern Illinois University Press, 2000). His poems are published in the 2002, 2004, and 2007 Pushcart Prize anthologies, Best American Poetry 2003, Boston Review, Conduit, The Kenyon Review, and The New Republic.

He also has a number of poems, essays, and reviews in American Book Review, American Poetry Review, Boulevard, Colorado Review, Shenandoah, Field, Lyric, The New Republic, and The New Kenyon Review.[6]

In addition to his three Pushcart Prizes (2002, 2004, and 2007) Prufer has received several awards from the Poetry Society of America, the Academy of American Poets, and other organizations. His earliest book, Strange Wood, received the 1997 Lena-Miles Wever Todd Poetry Prize (formerly the Winthrop Prize).[7] He was recently awarded a 2007 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in Poetry.[8]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Prufer, Kevin. University of Central Missouri. Retrieved on 2006-12-15.
  2. ^ Minor in Creative Writing. University of Central Missouri. Retrieved on 2006-12-15.
  3. ^ Editors. Pleiades & Pleiades Press. Retrieved on 2006-12-15.
  4. ^ American Book Review. LitLine. Retrieved on 2006-12-15.
  5. ^ Board of Directors. National Book Critics Circle. Retrieved on 2006-12-15.
  6. ^ a b Prufer, Kevin. Kevin Prufer. Retrieved on 2006-12-15.
  7. ^ Kevin D. Prufer. PoetryMagazine.com. Retrieved on 2006-12-15.
  8. ^ FY 2007 Grant Awards: Literature Fellowships in Poetry. National Endowment for the Arts. Retrieved on 2006-12-20.

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