Kevin Prufer

Kevin Prufer

Kevin D. Prufer (born 1969) is an American academic, editor, essayist, and poet.

Biography

Prufer was born in Cleveland, Ohio. After receiving a B.A. at Wesleyan University and an M.A. at the Hollins University Writing Program, he went on to earn an MFA at Washington University in St. Louis. He is currently Professor of English in the Department of English and Philosophy at the University of Central Missouri (UCM). [cite web |url=http://www.cmsu.edu/x83892.xml |title=Prufer, Kevin |accessdate=2006-12-15 |publisher=University of Central Missouri]

He is also Director of the Creative Writing program at UCM, [cite web |url=http://www.cmsu.edu/x84168.xml |title=Minor in Creative Writing |accessdate=2006-12-15 |publisher=University of Central Missouri] Editor/Director of "", [cite web |url=http://www.cmsu.edu/englphil/pleiades/editors.html |title=Editors |accessdate=2006-12-15 |publisher=Pleiades & Pleiades Press] Associate Editor of "American Book Review", [cite web |url=http://www.litline.org/ABR/about.html |title=American Book Review |accessdate=2006-12-15 |publisher=LitLine] and Vice President/Secretary of the National Book Critics Circle. [cite web |url=http://www.bookcritics.org/?go=board |title=Board of Directors |accessdate=2006-12-15 |publisher=National Book Critics Circle]

Prufer currently resides in Warrensburg, Missouri with artist and critic Mary Hallab.cite web |url=http://www.kevinprufer.com/ |title=Kevin Prufer |accessdate=2006-12-15 |last=Prufer |first=Kevin]

Publications and awards

Prufer has authored four books: "National Anthem" (Four Way Books, 2008), "Fallen from a Chariot" (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2005), "The Finger Bone" (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2002), and "Strange Wood" (Louisiana State University Press, 1998). He has also edited three anthologies: "New European Poets" (Graywolf Press), "Dark Horses: Poets on Overlooked Poems" (University of Illinois Press, 2007, with Joy Katz) and "The New Young American Poets" (Southern Illinois University Press, 2000). His poems are published in the 2002, 2004, and 2007 "Pushcart Prize" anthologies, "Best American Poetry 2003", "Boston Review", "Conduit", "The Kenyon Review", and "The New Republic".

He also has a number of poems, essays, and reviews in "American Book Review", "American Poetry Review", "Boulevard", "Colorado Review", "Shenandoah", "Field", "Lyric", "The New Republic", and "The New Kenyon Review".cite web |url=http://www.kevinprufer.com/ |title=Kevin Prufer |accessdate=2006-12-15 |last=Prufer |first=Kevin]

In addition to his three Pushcart Prizes (2002, 2004, and 2007) Prufer has received several awards from the Poetry Society of America, the Academy of American Poets, and other organizations. His earliest book, "Strange Wood", received the 1997 Lena-Miles Wever Todd Poetry Prize (formerly the Winthrop Prize). [cite web |url=http://www.poetrymagazine.com/archives/2001/October01/prufer.htm |title=Kevin D. Prufer |accessdate=2006-12-15 |publisher=PoetryMagazine.com] He was recently awarded a 2007 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in Poetry. [cite web |url=http://www.nea.gov/grants/recent/07grants/Lit.html |title=FY 2007 Grant Awards: Literature Fellowships in Poetry |accessdate=2006-12-20 |publisher=National Endowment for the Arts]

References

External links

* [http://www.kevinprufer.com/ Kevin Prufer's personal website]
* [http://www.cmsu.edu/x83892.xml Kevin Prufer's faculty page] at the University of Central Missouri
* [http://www.kevinprufer.com/gpage6.html Poems by Kevin Prufer] available online
*" [http://www.cmsu.edu/englphil/pleiades/ Pleiades: A Journal of New Writing] "


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