- Donald Morrill
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Donald Morrill is an American non-fiction author.
Morrill (b. Des Moines, Iowa, 1955) is the author of four books of nonfiction, Impetuous Sleeper, The Untouched Minutes, Sounding for Cool and A Stranger’s Neighborhood, as well as two volumes of poetry, At the Bottom of the Sky and With Your Back to Half the Day.
His work has appeared in magazines and journals across the country, and in numerous anthologies, garnering several awards, among them the Anne Halley Prize from The Massachusetts Review http://www.massreview.org/07_anne.html. the River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Award http://static.ashland.edu//riverteeth/guidelines.htm, the American Library Association/AAUP Best of the Press Award, the Emerging Writers of Creative Nonfiction Award, Duquesne University Press, the Mid-List Press First Series Award for poetry and The Missouri Review Editors’ Prize for Nonfiction.
He has taught at Jilin University, Peoples’ Republic of China, and has been a Fulbright Lecturer at the University of Lodz, Poland. He has also been the Bedell Visiting Writer in the Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa, as well as Secretary and Treasurer of the AWP Board of Directors http://www.awpwriter.org/ For twenty years he served as poetry editor for Tampa Review http://www.ut.edu/treview/trmain.aspx and the University of Tampa Press.
Currently, he is a member of the Low-Residency MFA Faculty at Antioch Los Angeles and Associate Dean of Graduate and Continuing Studies at the University of Tampa. http://www.ut.edu/
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LINKS FOR DONALD MORRILL’S BOOKS
for IMPETUOUS SLEEPER
for THE UNTOUCHED MINUTES
for SOUNDING FOR COOL
For WITH YOUR BACK TO HALF THE DAY
for AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SKY
DONALD MORRILL'S NONFICTION & POETRY ONLINE
Categories:- 1955 births
- Living people
- American writers
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