Peter Meinke

Fiction Writer, Poet

Saint Petersburg, FL

Florida US

Email:

Author's Bio

Peter Meinke has been writer-in-residence--in both fiction and poetry--at many colleges and universities, including Davidson, Hamilton, Hawaii, Emory, UNC/Greensboro, and others. In 2003-05 he held the Darden Chair at Old Dominion, and in 2008 he was Distinguished Poet at Wichita State. He was appointed the first ever Poet Laureate of St. Petersburg (2009-2015); he is now Poet Laureate of Florida (2015-2018).

Publications & Prizes

Fiction

Books:

The Expert Witness (University of Tampa Press, 2016)

The Shape of Poetry (University of Tampa Press, 2012)

Journals:

Atlantic Monthly

Georgia Review

Poetry

The New Yorker

Poetry

Books:

Lucky Bones (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014)

Truth & Affection (University of Tampa Press, 2013)

The Contracted World: New and Selected Poems (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006)

Zinc Fingers (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000)

Scars (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996)

Liquid Paper (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1991)

Prizes won:

"Lifetime Achievement in Letters" Award, SunLit Festival, St. Petersburg (2015),
Treasure of Tampa Bay Inaugural Award 2006,
SEBA Award in Poetry 2001,
Provincetown Master Artist's Fellowship 1995,
PSA Emily Dickinson Award 1992,
Eckerd Disting. Teacher Award 1990,
NEA Fellowship in Poetry 1989,
Flannery O'Connor Award 1986,
PSA Lucille Medwick Award 1984,
Emily Balch Fiction Award 1984,
Fulbright Professorship, U. of Warsaw, 1978-79,
PSA Gustav Davidson Award 1976,
NEA Fellowship in Poetry 1974.

Personal Favorites

What I'm reading now:

The Given Day by Dennis Lehane, And by Michael Blumenthal, The Presence by Dannie Abse

More Information

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Born in:

Brooklyn

Raised in:

Mountain Lakes, NJ

Please note: All information in the Directory is provided by the listed writers or their representatives.

Last update: Aug 06, 2018