Andrew Hudgins is an American poet

Poet

A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...

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His book The Never-Ending: New Poems (1991) was a finalist for the National Book Awards, After the Lost War: A Narrative (1988) received the Poetry Prize; and Saints and Strangers (1985), which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize

Pulitzer Prize

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He is also the author of a book of essays, The Glass Anvil (1997).
Hudgins was elected to the Fellowship of Southern Writers, and he currently teaches at Ohio State University

Ohio State University

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List of works

• Shut up, you're fine!: poems for very, very bad children, Overlook Press, 2009, ISBN 9781590201039
• Ecstatic in the Poison, Overlook Press, 2003, ISBN 9781585674299; Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2001, ISBN 9780618126972
• The glass anvil, University of Michigan Press, 1997, ISBN 9780472096152
• The Glass Hammer, Houghton Mifflin, 1994, ISBN 9780395700112
• The Never-Ending Houghton Mifflin, 1991, ISBN 9780395585702
• Praying drunk, Dim Gray Bar Press, 1991, ISBN 9781891472121
• Saints and Strangers, Houghton Mifflin, 1985, ISBN 9780395393840