Bradford Morrow

Bradford Morrow is an American novelist, poet, writer, academic and editor of Conjunctions literary magazine.

Life

Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Morrow grew up in Colorado, and, "after a decade of vagabonding from Honduras to France, Italy to England", settled in New York City, where he remains. [http://www.webdelsol.com/morrow/] Web page titled "A Web DelSol Featured Writer" at the "Web DelSol" Web site, accessed December 14, 2006]

"Conjunctions" magazine was hatched in late 1980 as "Morrow sat in Beat poet Kenneth Rexroth's library in Santa Barbara, California. The two friends had the idea to assemble a "Festschrift" for James Laughlin, the beloved editor of New Directions." After going through several publishers, the magazine was picked up by Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York who remains the journal's publisher. [http://www.pw.org/mag/newslarimer0111.htm] Larimer, Kevin, "The Functions of Conjunctions" article in "Poets & Writers" Web site, "News & Trends" section, undated but around October 2001, according to the article, accessed December 14, 2006]

Morrow was later Rexroth's literary executor.

He has taught at Princeton, Brown, and Columbia Universities, as well as the Naropa Institute. Since 1990 he has been a professor of literature and Bard Center Fellow at Bard College.

"The Review of Contemporary Fiction" published a "Bradford Morrow issue" in 2000.

Awards and honors

* Guggenheim Fellowship (2007)
* PEN/Nora Magid Award for Editing (2007)
* O. Henry Prize (2003)
* Academy Award in Literature, American Academy of Arts and Letters (1998)
* Member, board of trustees, PEN American Center (1998–2002) and chair of the PEN Forums Committee

Works

Novels

* "Come Sunday" (1988; later republished)
* "A Bestiary" (1991)
* "The Almanac Branch" (finalist for the 1992 PEN/Faulkner Award; 1991)
* "Trinity Fields" (finalist for the 1995 "Los Angeles Times" Book Award; first volume of his "New Mexico Trilogy")
* "Giovanni's Gift" (1997)
* "Ariel’s Crossing" (second volume of his "New Mexico Trilogy"; 2002)

Books of poems

* "After a Charme", (New York: Grenfell Press, 1984)
* "The Preferences", (New York: Grenfell Press, 1983)
* "Danae's Progress", (San Francisco: Cadmus Editions/Arion Press, 1982)
* "Posthumes", (Santa Barbara: Cadmus Editions, 1982)
* "Passing From the Provinces", (Santa Barbara: Cadmus Editions, 1981)

Notes

External links

* [http://webdelsol.com/morrow/biblio.htm "A Selected Checklist of Publications of Bradford Morrow"]
* [http://www.webdelsol.com/morrow/ Biographical sketch, with many links to excerpts from his works at "Web DelSol" Web site]
* [http://www.salon.com/march97/media/media.html "Salon" magazine on Morrow's being the subject of a "New York" magazine piece and the "New York Times" book review that followed]