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Listed as:

Fiction Writer, Poet

Public address:

Saint Petersburg, FL

Florida US

Email:

meinkep@eckerd.edu

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).

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Born in:

Brooklyn

Raised in:

Mountain Lakes, NJ

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.

What I'm reading now:

The Given Day by Dennis Lehane

And by Michael Blumenthal

The Presence by Dannie Abse