Jeanne Larsen

Jeanne Larsen (born 1950 in Washington, D.C.) is a poet, novelist, translator, and essayist.[1][2][3] Much of her work shows the growing influence of Buddhist perspectives on U.S. literature. This includes not only the poetry and creative nonfiction, but also the novels in her Avalokiteśvara trilogy: Silk Road, Bronze Mirror, and Manchu Palaces.

Biography

Larsen grew up on U.S. Army posts in Kansas, Virginia, Pennsylvania and Germany. A graduate of Oberlin College, she received her M.A. from Hollins College and her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from The University of Iowa. She has also lived, worked, and studied in Taiwan and Japan. In 1980, she moved to the Roanoke Valley of Virginia in the United States, where she teaches literature and creative writing at Hollins University.[4]

Published works

Awards

Larsen is the recipient of a Japan/U.S. Friendship Commission Creative Artists Exchange Fellowship (creative nonfiction),[5] an Individual Artist Fellowship (fiction) from the Virginia Commission for the Arts, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (literary translation),[6] the William L. Crawford Award for the year’s best new novelist from the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts and student prizes from the Academy of American Poets.

She has also received residency fellowships from the Millay Colony for the Arts, the Byrdcliffe Artists Colony, The Hambidge Center for Creative Arts & Sciences, Ragdale, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Eastern Frontier Society, and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. The School for Criticism and Theory and the American Council of Learned Societies/Mellon Foundation have awarded her academic fellowships, and she first went to Taiwan on an Oberlin Shansi teaching-study fellowship.

References

  1. ↑ "Jeanne Larson". Blackbird Archive. Virginia Commonwealth University. Retrieved 2011-05-24.
  2. ↑ "Jeanne Larsen". Ploughshares. Emerson College. Retrieved 2011-05-24.
  3. ↑ "Jeanne Larsen". Library Thing. Retrieved 2011-05-24.
  4. ↑ "M.F. A. in Creative Writing". Hollins University. Retrieved 2011-05-24.
  5. ↑ "1999 Artists". US-Japan Creative Artists' Profile. International House of Japan. Retrieved 2011-05-24.
  6. ↑ "NEA Literature Fellowships" (PDF). National Endowment for the Arts. March 2006. p. 48. Retrieved 2011-05-24.

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