Gary Fincke

Poet, Fiction Writer, Creative Nonfiction Writer

Selinsgrove, PA

Pennsylvania US

Email:

gfincke@susqu.edu

Website:

garyfincke.net

Author's Bio

Have published 14 book-length poetry collections as wells a "new and selected" volume; seven collections of short stories; one novel; and four nonfiction books with Georgia, Ohio State, Missouri, Arkansas, Coffee House, Zoland, BkMk, Stephen F. Austin, Michigan State, Pleiades, and others

Publications & Prizes

Creative Nonfiction

Books:

The Canals of Mars (Michigan State University Press, 2009)

Standing around the Heart, poems (University of Arkansas Press, 2005)

Amp'd: A Father's Backstage Pass (Michigan State University Press, 2004)

Sorry I Worried You, stories (University of Georgia Press, 2004)

The Stone Child, stories (University of Missouri Press, 2003)

The Almanac for Desire (BookMark Press, 2000)

Fiction

Journals:

Flaunt

Georgia Review

Gettysburg Review

Harper's

Kenyon Review

Paris Review

Poetry

Book:

The Fire Landscape (University of Arkansas Press, 2008)

Prizes won:

Flannery O'Connor Prize; Elixir Press Fiction Prize; Wheelbarrow Books/Michigan State Prize for Established Poets; Stephen F. Austin Poetry Book Prize; Ohio State University Press/The Journal Poetry Prize; Jacar Press Poetry Book Prize; Bess Hokin Prize (Poetry)

More Information

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Identifies as:

White

Prefers to work with:

Any

Fluent in:

English

Born in:

Pittsburgh

Raised in:

Pittsburgh, PA

Pennsylvania

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Last update: May 06, 2019