Creative Writing at Bowling Green State University - Bios of College of Arts and Sciences Visiting Writers

Linda Gregerson's fourth book of poems, Magnetic North, was a finalist for the 2007 National Book Award. Her earlier books include Waterborne, The Woman Who Died in Her Sleep, and Fire in the Conservatory. Her awards include the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Prize, an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Levinson Prize from Poetry magazine, the Consuelo Ford Award from the Poetry Society of America, grants and fellowships from the Institute for Advanced Study, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the National Humanities Center, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim, Mellon, Rockefeller and Bogliasco Foundations. Gregerson is the Caroline Walker Bynum Distinguished University Professor of English at the University of Michigan. Reading, Thursday, September 24, 2009, Prout Chapel, 7:30 p.m.

Ben Percy teaches creative writing (fiction and nonfiction) in the MFA program at Iowa State University. He the author of a novel, The Wilding (forthcoming from Graywolf in 2009), and two books of short stories, Refresh, Refresh (Graywolf) and The Language of Elk (Carnegie Mellon). His fiction and nonfiction have been read on National Public Radio, performed at Symphony Space, and published by Esquire, Men's Journal, Paris Review, Chicago Tribune, Glimmer Train, and many other publications. He lives in Ames, Iowa, with his wife and two children. Reading, Thursday, October 1, Prout Chapel, 7:30 p.m.

Rachel Zucker is author of The Bad Wife Handbook, The Last Clear Narrative, and Eating in the Underworld. Zucker is the winner of the Salt Hill Poetry Award and the Barrow Street Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared in many journals, including 3rd Bed, American Poetry Review, Barrow Street, Colorado Review, Epoch, Fence, Iowa Review, Pleiades, and Prairie Schooner as well as in the Best American Poetry 2001 anthology. Zucker has taught at Yale, NYU and Makor. From 2005-2007 she was the poet-in-residence at Fordham University. She is currently working on her fourth collection of poems, Museum of Accidents, which will be published by Wave Books in 2009. Reading, Thursday, October 22, Prout Chapel, 7:30 p.m.

Pamela Painter is the author of two story collections, Getting to Know the Weather, winner of the GLCA Award for First Fiction, and The Long and Short of It. She is also co-author of the widely used textbook, What If? Writing Exercises for Fiction Writers. Her stories have appeared in The Atlantic, Harper's, Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, and Quick Fiction, among others and in numerous anthologies, such as Sudden Fiction, Flash Fiction, and MicroFiction. A short-short collection is forthcoming from Carnegie Mellon University Press. Painter lives in Boston and teaches in the Writing, Literature and Publishing Program at Emerson College. Reading, Thursday, November 12, Prout Chapel, 7:30 p.m.

James Ragan, Arts and Sciences Distinguished Visiting Poet, will read.
For biographical information, click here. Reading, Thursday, January 28, Prout Chapel, 7:30 p.m.

James Ragan, Arts and Sciences Distinguished Visiting Poet, will lecture.
For biographical information, click here. Lecture, Thursday, February 25, 2009, Prout Chapel, 7:30 p.m.

Michael Kimball's third novel, Dear Everybody, was published in the US, UK, and Canada in 2008. He is also the author of The Way the Family Got Away and How Much of Us There Was. He has won a fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts, a Boswell and Johnson Award, and the Lidano Fiction Prize. He has also published many pieces in many literary magazines, including, mostly recently, Open City, Prairie Schooner, SleepingFish, New York Tyrant and Post Road. He lives in Charm City with his charming wife. Reading, Thursday, March 25, Prout Chapel, 7:30 p.m.