mfa faculty
Fiction
| Diana Abu-Jaber | ||
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Books Birds of Paradise (W.W. Norton, 2011) Selected short fiction, articles, and essays The New York Times; Vogue; Real Simple; Gourmet; Self; The Washington Post; The LA Times; Salon.com; Christian Science Monitor; Saveur; The Nation, as well as essays and commentary for All Things Considered and Weekend America, National Public Radio Selected awards The Florida Book Award Bronze Medal; The Arab-American Book Award; Booksense Top Five Fiction Selection; Northwest Booksellers Award; Booksense Notable Book; Border’s Original Voices Selection; Inclusion in Best American Food Writing; Oregon Book Award Finalist; James Beard Award finalist; PEN Center USA Award for Literary Fiction; The American Book Award; Northwest Distinguished Author Award from Willamette Writers; Oregon Book Award; PEN-Hemingway Finalist email: abujaber@pdx.edu website: dianaabujaber.com |
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| Tom Bissell | ||
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Books Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter (2010) Selected short fiction, articles, and essays Best American Travel Writing, Best American Short Stories, Best American Science Writing, Best American Mystery Stories, The New York Times Magazine, Granta, Harper's, McSweeney's, The Believer, The New Republic, The Alaska Quarterly Review, The New Yorker, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Agni Selected Awards Guggenheim Fellowship, 2010; The Rome Prize, 2007 email: tbissell@pdx.edu |
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| Charles D'Ambrosio | ||
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Books The Dead Fish Museum (Knopf 2006) Selected fiction and essays The New Yorker, The Paris Review, A Public Space, Zoetrope All-Story, and various anthologies, including Best American Short Stories, The O.Henry Awards and The Pushcart Prize Selected awards Lannan Fellowship, 2008; Rasmuson Fellow, United States Artists, 2008; PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist, 2007; An Academy Award in Literature, The American Academy of Arts and Letters, 2007; The Whiting Writers' Award, 2006 email: cad2@pdx.edu |
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| Craig Lesley | ||
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Books Burning Fence (St. Martins, 2005) Selected awards The Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award, the Western Writers of America Golden Spur Award for Best Novel, Oregon Book Award email: lesley@pdx.edu website: craiglesley.com
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| A. B. Paulson | ||
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Books Watchman Tell Us of the Night: a Novel (Viking, 1985) Articles and short fiction American Imago, Buffalo NY Spree, Experimentelle Amerikanishe Prosa, Extreme Fiction: Fabulists and Formalists, Georgia Review, Language and Style, Necessary Fictions, New England Review, Ohio Review, Triquarterly email: hhap@pdx.edu |
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| Leni Zumas | ||
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Books The Listeners (Tin House, forthcoming 2012) Selected Articles and short fiction Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, Everyday Genius, Gigantic, Harp & Altar, Keyhole, New Orleans Review, New York Tyrant, Poets & Writers, Quarterly West, The Rumpus, Salt Hill, So to Speak, They're At It Again: An Open City Reader Selected Awards New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, 2008; Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Artist Residency, 2008. email: zumas@pdx.edu |
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Poetry
| Michele Glazer | ||
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Books On Tact, & the Made Up World (Iowa, 2010) Selected anthology and journal publications American Letters & Commentary, Black Warrior Review, Boston Review, Field, Harvard Review, The Iowa Anthology of New American Poetries, Long Journey: Contemporary Northwest Poets, Outsiders, Ploughshares, Writing Poems Selected awards
Richard Hugo Chair in Poetry, University of Montana, 2007; Oregon Arts Commission Fellowship, 2006; Iowa Poetry Prize, 2003; Regional Arts & Culture Council Individual Artist Fellowship, 2001; National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, 1997 email: glazer@pdx.edu |
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| John Beer | ||
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Books The Waste Lands and Other Poems (Canarium, 2010) Selected Publications Barrow Street, Chicago Review, Colorado Review, Court Green, Crowd, Denver Quarterly, Lo-Ball, LVNG, Review of Contemporary Fiction, Starting Today: 100 Poems for Obama's First 100 Days, Time Out Chicago, Verse, Village Voice, Xantippe Awards Norma Farber First Book Award; Poetry Society of America, 2011; Believer Poetry Award shortlist, 2011 |
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Nonfiction
| Tom Bissell | ||
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Tom Bissell teaches both in nonfiction and fiction. See above for more bio information. | |
| Paul Collins | ||
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Books The Book of William: How Shakespeare's First Folio Conquered the World (Bloomsbury 2009) Editor, The Collins Library imprint of McSweeney's Books Selected articles, essays, and radio The Believer, The Better of McSweeney's, The All-Music Guide to Rock 2nd ed., Bookmark Now, NPR Weekend Edition, New Scientist, New York Times, The Norton Reader 11th edition, The Rough Guide to Rock 2nd ed., Slate.com, Smithsonian, The Stranger, Village Voice Selected awards Guggenheim Fellowship, 2009 email: pcollins@pdx.edu website: The Literary Detective twitter: @thelitdetective blog: Literary Detective Blog |
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| Michael McGregor | ||
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Articles, essays, and book chapters American Theatre, Back Door Travel, Carve, Europe 101: History and Art for the Traveler, The Dictionary of Literary Biography, The Griffin, The Merton Seasonal, Metroscape, The Mid-America Poetry Review, Northwest Education, Now Write! Non-Fiction Writing Exercises from Today's Best Writers & Teachers, Oregon Historical Quarterly, Oregon Humanities, Poets & Writers, Portland Monthly, The Raven Chronicles, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, The Seattle Review, The Seattle Weekly, South Dakota Review, StoryQuarterly, The Writer's Chronicle, Weber: The Contemporary West. Selected Awards Illinois Arts Council Literary Grant; Daniel Curley Award for Best Short Fiction; John Eliot Allen Outstanding Teaching Award (2003, 2006, 2009) email: mcgregor@pdx.edu |
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