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Listed as:

Fiction Writer, Poet

Public address:

Vilnius

Lithuania

LT

Email:

Kerrykeys@yahoo.com

Bio:

I am a poet and playwright, author of children's books,and recently writing Wonderscipts (short prose fiction). Translator from Portuguese and Lithuanian into English. 40 some books published, many overseas. I divide my time between Vilnius and Pennsylvania hill country. Former Fulbright scholar of African-Brazilian studies; and former Fulbright Assistant Professor in Creative Composition and Translation Practice and Theory Translation at Vilnius University.Poet-in-Residence at SLS, Vilnius.World Poetry Ambassador, Republic of Užupis. Column for Poetry International, SD:"Republic of Užupis: Crossroads of World Poetry"; Most recent books: Night Flight(poems);Pienas (prose)

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

In which languages are you fluent?:

English

Born in:

Harrisburg

Raised in:

Harrisburg, PA

Pennsylvania

Prizes won:

National Endowment for Arts Literature Fellowship; Poetry Society of America, Robert H. Winner;Pennsylvania Council On The Arts;Laureate, Lithuania Translation;DJS Translation Award, 2012, New Cathay: Contemporary Chinese Poetry 1990-2012; Perry County Artist of the Year; among many others

What I'm reading now:

All that I can find of Seamus Heaney by Seamus Heaney

Moderrnity And The Holocaust by Zygmunt Bauman

Selected Poems by Jorge Luis Borges; also Z. Herbert's Collected

Divine Comedy by Dante

The Fables of La Fontaine by version by Marianne Moore

Prefers to work with:

Any