John High

Poet

Author's Bio

John High has read his work internationally at the Venice Biennale, in Moscow, St. Petersburg, throughout the former Soviet Union and Eastern and Western Europe, and most recently in Hangzhou, Istanbul, London, and in Paris at the Paris Ivy Series for which his work was translated into French. He has taught creative writing and literature in Moscow at Moscow State University, in Istanbul as a visiting writer, at Kadir Has University, Hangzhou, at Global College at Zhejiang University, San Francisco State University and Montclair (as a visiting writer), and currently directs the MFA Creative Writing Program at Long Island University in Brooklyn, NY.

Publications & Prizes

Books:
the lives of thomas—episodes & prayers (Five Fingers Review Press, 2018)
,
Vanishing Acts (Talisman House Publications, 2016)
,
you are everything you are not (Talisman House Publications, 2013)
,
A Book of Unknowing (Talisman House Publications, 2010)
,
Here: A Poem for Billy High 1959-2004 (Talisman House Publications, 2006)
,
Talking God’s Radio Show (Spuyten Duyvil, 2006)
,
Bloodline (Talisman House Publications, 2002)
,
The Desire Notebooks (Spuyten Duyvil, 1999)
,
Ceremonies (Concourse Press, 1984)
Prizes won: 

National Endowment of the Arts,
Witter Bynner Foundation,
Fulbright Fellowships

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Fluent in: 
Russian
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Last update: Aug 29, 2016