Gregory Fraser
| Gregory Fraser | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing.[1] |
| Employer | University of West Georgia |
Gregory Fraser is an American poet.
Biography
Gregory Fraser (born 1963) is an American poet, editor, and professor. He is the author of three poetry collections, Strange Pietà, Answering the Ruins, and Designed for Flight, as well as the co-author, with poet Chad Davidson, of two college textbooks, Writing Poetry and Analyze Anything. Fraser grew up in Philadelphia and its suburbs, and earned a B.A. at Ursinus College, an M.F.A. at Columbia University, and a Ph.D. at the University of Houston. His poetry has appeared in journals including The Paris Review, The Southern Review, The Gettysburg Review, and Ploughshares. The recipient of a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and the 2010 Georgia Author of the Year in Poetry, Fraser teaches at the University of West Georgia, located an hour west of Atlanta, and serves as features editor of the Birmingham Poetry Review.
Awards
- Walt McDonald First Book Award
- Associated Writing Programs Award
- Literary Award from the Houston Arts Council
- Texas Teachers of Creative Writing Award
- 2005 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
- 2009 Sewanee Writers’ Conference Fellowship
- 2010 Georgia Author of the Year in Poetry
Publications
Poetry collections
- Designed for Flight. Northwestern University Press. Forthcoming 2013.
- Answering the Ruins. Northwestern University Press. 2008. ISBN 9780810125575.[2]
- Strange Pietà. Texas Tech University Press. 2003. ISBN 9780896725447.
Chapbook
- A Different Bother. Beard of Bees Press. 2008.
Non-fiction
- Analyze Anything: A Guide to Critical Reading and Writing, textbook (with Chad Davidson), Bloomsbury/Continuum Publishers, London and New York (2012). ISBN 978-1-4411073-0-5.
- Writing Poetry: Creative-Critical Approaches, textbook (with Chad Davidson), Palgrave-Macmillan, London and New York (2008). ISBN 978-0-2300081-2-0.
Online works
- “Rainbow, Rainbow, Rainbow,” The Gettysburg Review
- “The Great Northeast,” The Missouri Review
- “End of Days,” Verse Daily/The Southern Review
- “Ficus,” Verse Daily/Birmingham Poetry Review
- “Epithalamium,” Verse Daily/New South
- A Different Bother, Beard of Bees Press
- Interview with Gregory Fraser by Joe Milford
- Review of Strange Pietà by Marilyn Chandler McEntyre
- Review of Strange Pietà by Todd Rudy
- Interview with Gregory Fraser by Hani Sarji and Michael Hepner
- Interview with David Bottoms by Gregory Fraser, Poetry Daily