Jay Hopler
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Biography
He graduated from Purdue UniversityPurdue University
Purdue University, located in West Lafayette, Indiana, U.S., is the flagship university of the six-campus Purdue University system. Purdue was founded on May 6, 1869, as a land-grant university when the Indiana General Assembly, taking advantage of the Morrill Act, accepted a donation of land and...
(Ph.D., American Studies), The Iowa Writers’ Workshop (M.F.A., Creative Writing/Poetry), The Johns Hopkins University
Johns Hopkins University
The Johns Hopkins University, commonly referred to as Johns Hopkins, JHU, or simply Hopkins, is a private research university based in Baltimore, Maryland, United States...
Writing Seminars (M.A., Creative Writing/Poetry) and New York University
New York University
New York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...
(B.A., English and American Literature).
His poetry and essays have appeared in numerous magazines and journals, including American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, Mid-American Review, The New Republic and The New Yorker.
He lives in Tampa and is Associate Professor of English (Creative Writing/Poetry) at the University of South Florida
University of South Florida
The University of South Florida, also known as USF, is a member institution of the State University System of Florida, one of the state's three flagship universities for public research, and is located in Tampa, Florida, USA...
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He is married to poet and Renaissance scholar Kimberly Johnson
Kimberly Johnson
-Life:Johnson was raised in West Jordan, Utah. She earned her MA in 1995 from the Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars, her MFA in 1997 Iowa Writers' Workshop, and a PhD in 2003 from University of California, Berkeley....
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Awards
- 2010/2011 Rome Fellowship in Literature from the American Academy of Arts & Letters/The American Academy in Rome
- 2009 Whiting Writers' AwardWhiting Writers' AwardThe Whiting Writers' Award is an American award presented annually to ten emerging writers in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and plays. The award is sponsored by the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation and has been presented since 1985. As of 2007, winners receive US $50,000.-External links:**...
- 2009 Lannan Foundation Marfa Residency Fellowship
- 2007 National “Best Books” Award from USA Book News.
- 2007 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award,for Green Squall
- 2006 Florida Book Award [Silver Medal in the Poetry Category] for Green Squall
- 2006 ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award [Bronze Medal in the Poetry Category]
- 2005 Yale Series of Younger Poets Award, for Green Squall, chosen by Louise GlückLouise GlückLouise Elisabeth Glück is an American poet of Hungarian Jewish heritage. She was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 2003, after serving as a Special Bicentennial Consultant three years prior in 2000....