Bio

Kevin Prufer is the author of four books of poetry and the editor of four anthologies, the most recent of which are National Anthem (Four Way Books, 2008), New European Poets (Graywolf Press, 2008; w/ Wayne Miller) and Dunstan Thompson: on the Life and Work of a Lost American Master (Unsung Masters Series, 2010; w/ D. A. Powell). His fifth book of poetry, In a Beautiful Country, is forthcoming from Four Way Books in 2011. Prufer is also Editor-at-Large of Pleiades: A Journal of New Writing and Professor in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston. Among Prufer's awards and honors are three Pushcart prizes, two Best American Poetry selections, numerous awards from the Poetry Society of America, the Prairie Schooner/Strousse Award, the William Rockhill Nelson Award, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Lannan Foundation. Born in 1969 in Cleveland, Ohio, Kevin Prufer received his undergraduate degree from the College of Letters at Wesleyan University. He has graduate degrees from Hollins University and Washington University. He is married to artist and literary critic Mary Hallab. (And while you're on the internet, why not visit a few of Kevin's friends' websites, too: Richard Burgin, John Gallaher, Wayne Miller, Rose Marie Kinder,Alan Michael Parker, and Martha Collins are often up to interesting things.