2006-2007 Season
Russell Banks
Born March 28, 1940 in Newton, Massachusetts, Russell Banks is an American writer of fiction and poetry. He is president of the International Parliament of Writers and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters . His work has been translated into twenty languages and has received numerous international prizes and awards...MORE>
Caroline Bergvall
Caroline Bergvall is a poet and performance artist based in London, England. Books include: Goan Atom (Krupskaya, 2001) and Eclat (Sound&Language, 1996). Her most recent collection of poetic and performance pieces, FIG (Goan Atom 2) was recently published (Salt Books, 2005) and her CD of readings and audiotexts, Via: poems 1994-2004 (Rockdrill 8) is available through Carcanet....MORE>
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge was born in Beijing and grew up in Massachusetts. She is the author of twelve books of poetry. Her selected poems, I Love Artists, was published by the University of California Press in 2006. A collaboration with artist Kiki Smith, Concordance, was recently published by the Rutgers Center for Innovative Paper and Print and in a trade edition from Kelsey Street Press. She lives in rural New Mexico and in New York City....MORE>
Ciarán Carson
Ciarán Carson was born in Belfast in 1948 and educated at Queen’s University there. He worked for the Arts Council of Northern Ireland from 1975 to 1998, with responsibility for Traditional Music and Literature. A musician himself, he has published two books on Irish traditional music, The Pocket Guide to Traditional Music (1986) and Last Night’s Fun (1997). In 2003 he was appointed Professor of Poetry and Director of the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry at Queen’s University....MORE>
DaKxin Bajrange Chhara
DaKxin Bajrange Chhara is an award winning filmmaker, playwright, actor, director and activist from the ex-criminal Chhara community of Ahmedabad, in western India. His Five Plays is forthcoming from Orient Longman, New Delhi...MORE>
Edwidge Danticat
Edwidge Danticat was born in Haiti in 1969, and was raised by her aunt under the dictatorial Duvalier regime (her parents left for the US when she was four). Danticat was reunited with her parents and brothers in America when she was 12. She published her first writings two years later, and holds a degree in literature from Barnard College and an MFA from Brown University...MORE>
Gerald Dawe
Gerald Dawe was born in Belfast in 1952 and educated at the University of Ulster and at the National University of Ireland, Galway. He six collections of poetry include Sheltering Places (1978), Sunday School (1991), The Morning Train (1999) and Lake Geneva (2003). A recipient of a number of awards, including The Macauley Fellowship in Literature (1984) and the Ledig-Rowohlt International Writers’ Fellowship (1999), he was elected Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, where he is Director of the Oscar Wilde Centre for Irish Writing, Director of the Graduate Writing Programme, and Lecturer in English....MORE>
Greg Delanty
Greg Delanty was born in Cork in 1958 and educated at the National University of Ireland, Cork. He became a U.S. citizen in 1994 and was a Green Party candidate in the Vermont state elections in 2004. Publications include American Wake (1985), The Hellbox (1998), The Blind Stitch (2001) and The Ship of Birth (2003). His Collected Poems 1986-2006 was published in 2007...MORE>
G. N. Devy
Dr. G. N. Devy left his position as Professor of English from M. S. University in Baroda in 1996 to devote himself full time to tribal development. An accomplished scholar, he has since become an effective organizer for tribal autonomy and cultural renewal. Major publications: After Amnesia : Tradition & Change in Indian Literary Criticism (1992), In Another Tongue: Essays on Indian English Literature (1992), Of Many Heroes: An Essay on Literary Historiography (1997), The Tribal Knows (2001), Indian Literary Criticism: Theory & Interpretation (2002), Painted Words : Tribal Literature from India (2002), For a Nomad Called Thief (2006)....MORE>
Johanna Drucker
Book artist, visual poet and critic, Johanna Drucker, is currently the Robertson Professor of Media Studies at the University of Virginia. Her most recent books include Damaged Spring (Druckwerk 2003), From Now (Cuneiform Press 2005) and Sweet Dreams: Contemporary Art and Complicity (University of Chicago Press 2005). ...MORE>
Leontia Flynn
Leontia Flynn was born in 1974 in County Down, Northern Ireland and educated at Queen’s University, Belfast. In 2001 she received an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors, and in 2004 These Days won the Forward Prize for best first collection. On the basis of this work she was named one of twenty “Next Generation” poets by the Poetry Book Society...MORE>
Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney was born at Mossbawn, County Derry, Northern Ireland in 1939 and educated at Queen’s University Belfast. His first book, Death of a Naturalist (1966), received the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the Cholmondeley Award and the Somerset Maugham Award. Subsequent award-winning volumes include North (1975), Station Island (1984), Seeing Things (1991) and The Spirit Level (1996); Opened Ground: Selected Poems 1966-1996 appeared in 1998...MORE>
Brenda Hillman
Brenda Hillman has published seven collections of poetry: White Dress (1985), Fortress (1989), Death Tractates (1992), Bright Existence (1993), Loose Sugar (1997), Cascadia (2001), and Pieces of Air in the Epic (2005), all from Wesleyan University Press, and three chapbooks: Coffee, 3 A.M. (Penumbra Press, 1982), Autumn Sojourn (Em Press, 1995), and The Firecage (a+bend press, 2000)...MORE>
Yusef Komunyakaa
Yusef Komunyakaan is an eminent American poet who currently teaches at New York University. Komunyakaa is a recipient of the the 1994 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award (for Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems), the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (also for Neon Vernacular), and the 2001 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. His subject matter ranges from the African-American experience through rural Southern life before civil rights and his experience as a soldier during the Vietnam War....MORE>
Nick Laird
Nick Laird was born in Cookstown, Country Tyrone, Northern Ireland, in 1975 and is a graduate of Cambridge University, where he won the Quiller-Couch Award for creative writing. He also studied at the College of Law, London and was a visiting Fellow at Harvard University in 2003. His first book of a poetry, To a Fault (2005), received a number of awards, including the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. His first novel, Utterly Monkey (2005), received the Society of Authors’ Betty Trask Award for best first novel...MORE>
Edna Longley
Edna Longley was born in Dublin in 1940 and educated at Trinity College, Dublin. She taught for many years in the School of English at Queen’s University, Belfast, where she is now Professor Emerita. A leading critic of modern poetry, she has written on W.B. Yeats, Louis MacNeice, Edward Thomas and the Great War poets...MORE>
Michael Longley
Michael Longley was born in Belfast in 1939 and educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution and at Trinity College, Dublin. From 1970 to 1991 he worked for the Arts Council of Northern Ireland as Combined Arts Director. His collections of poetry include No Continuing City: Poems 1963-1968 (1969), Man Lying on a Wall (1976), Gorse Fires (1991), which won the Whitbread Poetry Award, The Weather in Japan (2000), which was awarded the Hawthornden Prize, the T.S. Eliot Award and the Irish Times Poetry Award, and Snow Water (2004)...MORE>
Jerome McGann
Author/editor of nearly forty books, Jerome McGann is John Stewart Bryan University Professor at the University of Virginia. His most recent work includes The Scholar's Art. Literature and Scholarship in an Administered World (U of Chicago P, 2006) and The Point is to Change It. Literature in the Continuing Present (forthcoming 2007, U of Alabama P)...MORE>
Medbh McGuckian
Medbh McGuckian was born in Belfast in 1950 and educated at Queen’s University, Belfast. She received an Eric Gregory Award in 1980 and the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature as well as the Alice Hunt Bartlett Award for The Flower Master (1982). Her other collections of poetry include On Ballycastle Beach (1984), which was awarded the Cheltenham Poetry Prize, Captain Lavender (1994) and Shelmalier (1998). Her Selected Poems 1978-1994 was published in 1997...MORE>
Sinéad Morrissey
Sinéad Morrissey was born in Portadown, County Armagh, Northern Ireland, in 1972 and grew up in Belfast. She was educated at Trinity College, Dublin. Her collections of poetry are There Was a Fire in Vancouver (1996), Between Here and There (2002) and The State of the Prisons (2005). Her awards include the Patrick Kavanagh Award (1990), the Eric Gregory Award (1996), the Rupert and Eithne Strong Trust Award (2002) and the Michael Hartnett Award for Poetry (2005)...MORE>
Paul Muldoon
Paul Muldoon was born in County Armagh in 1951 and educated at Queen’s University, Belfast. He worked for B.B.C. Radio, Northern Ireland, from 1973 to 1986. He is Howard G.B. Clark ‘21 Professor of the Humanities and Creative Writing at Princeton University and an Honorary Fellow of Hertford College, Oxford. Among his collections of poetry are New Weather (1973), Why Brownlee Left (1980), Meeting the British (1987), Madoc: A Mystery (1990), which received the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, The Annals of Chile (1994), which received the T.S. Eliot Award, Moy Sand and Gravel, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the Griffin Prize for Excellence in Poetry...MORE>
Bernard O’Donoghue
Bernard O’Donoghue was born in Cullen, County Cork, in 1945 and later moved to Manchester, England. He was educated at Oxford University, where he is a Fellow of Wadham College. His collections of poetry include Gunpowder (1995), which received the Whitbread Poetry Prize, Here Nor There (1999) and Outliving (2003). Other works include an edition of the i (1982), an anthology, The Courtly Love Tradition (1984) and a work of criticism, Seamus Heaney and the Language of Poetry (1994). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. ...MORE>
Dennis O’Driscoll
Dennis O’Driscoll was born in Thurles, County Tipperary, in 1954. He studied law at the National University of Ireland, Dublin. He has worked in the Irish Civil Service since the age of sixteen. Among his collections of poetry are Kist (1982), Hidden Extras (1987), Long Short Story (1993) and Exemplary Damages (2002); New and Selected Poems was published in 2004 and received a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation...MORE>
Frank Ormsby
Frank Ormsby was born in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, in 1947 and educated at Queen’s University, Belfast. Since 1975 he has been Head of English at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution. His collections of poetry are A Store of Candles (1977), A Northern Spring (1986) and The Ghost Train (1995). He has received the Cultural Traditions Award (1992) and the Lawrence O’Shaughnessy Award for Poetry (2002)...MORE>
Lisa Robertson
Born in Toronto, Canadian writer Lisa Robertson lived in Vancouver for twenty-three years, where she was a participant in the continuing utopian experiment called The Kootenay School of Writing. She now lives in France. Her books of poetry include XEclogue, Debbie: An Epic, The Weather (New Star Books/ Reality Street Editions)...MORE>
Kim Stanley Robinson
Kim Stanley Robinson is an American science fiction writer, probably best known for his award-winning Mars trilogy. He has been widely acclaimed by readers and critics since the beginning of his career, and is considered by many to be one of the finest living writers of science fiction. His work delves into ecological and sociological themes regularly, and many of his novels appear to be the direct result of his own scientific fascinations, such as the 15 years of research and lifelong fascination with Mars which culminated in his most famous work. He has, due to his fascination with Mars, become a member of the Mars Society. His major novels are: The Wild Shore (1984), The Gold Coast (1988) and Pacific Edge (1990) (The California Trilogy), Red Mars (1993), Green Mars (1994), and Blue Mars (1996) (the Mars Trilogy), Forty Signs of Rain (2004), Fifty Degrees Below (2005) and Sixty Days and Counting (2007) (the Washington Trilogy)...MORE>
James Scully
For many years, James Scully, along with others, quietly radicalized American poetry -- in theory and in practice, in how it is lived as well as in how it is written -- and this book is important not only in itself but as an indication of a necessary, healthy development in American letters ...MORE>
Penn Szittya
Penn Szittya is Professor and Chair of the English Department at Georgetown University and is the author of The Antifraternal Tradition in Medieval Literature (Princeton UP) and the editor of the Pardoner’s Tale volume for the Chaucer Variorum. He has published on medieval literatures in Old French, Anglo-Saxon, Icelandic, Middle English, and Latin, in PMLA. Speculum, Medieval Studies, Neuphilologische Mitteilungen, and elsewhere...MORE>
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Ngugi wa Thiong'o (born January 5, 1938) is a Kenyan author, formerly working in English and now working in Gikuyu. His work includes novels, plays, short stories, essays and scholarship, criticism and children's literature. He is the founder and editor of the Gikuyu-language journal, Mutiiri ...MORE>
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