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Listed as:

Poet

Public address:

Youngstown, OH

Ohio US

Email:

whgreenway@ysu.edu

Bio:

I'm a native of Atlanta and got my B.A. from Georgia State University. I have a Ph.D. in Modern Literature and Poetry from Tulane University, and am Professor of English at Youngstown State University, where I've taught since 1986, and where I've been awarded Distinguished Professorships in both teaching and scholarship (thrice). My tenth full-length collection is The Accidental Garden. My ninth full-length collection, Everywhere at Once, is from the University of Akron Press Poetry Series, which also published my seventh collection, Ascending Order (2003), winner of the 2004 Ohioana Poetry Book of the Year Award, and I Have My Own Song For It: Modern Poems of Ohio (2002), which I co-edited with Elton Glaser. My eighth full-length collection, Fishing at the End of the World, is from Word Press (2005), which is also publishing my newest full-length collection, The Accidental Garden, in 2014.

My publications include Poetry, American Poetry Review, Southern Review, Georgia Review, Prairie Schooner, Poetry Northwest, and Shenandoah.

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

In which languages are you fluent?:

English

Born in:

Atlanta

Raised in:

Smyrna and Marietta, GA

Georgia

Website:

http://www.as.ysu.edu/~english/faculty/g… [2]

Prizes won:

I’ve won the Helen and Laura Krout Memorial Poetry Award, the Larry Levis Editors’ Prize from Missouri Review, the Open Voice Poetry Award from The Writer's Voice, the State Street Press Chapbook Competition, an Ohio Arts Council Grant, an Academy of American Poets Prize, and have been Georgia Author of the Year. My collections Ascending Order (2003)and Everywhere at Once (2009)won Ohioana Best Book of Poetry Prizes.

Identifies as:

Welsh American

Prefers to work with:

Any