Steve Kistulentz
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Steve Kistulentz is an American poet and fiction writer. He is currently an assistant professor of English at http://www.millsaps.eduMillsaps College
] in Jackson, MS.
His first book of poems THE LUCKLESS AGE was selected by Nick Flynn as the winner of the 2010 Benjamin Saltman Award and will be published in early 2011 by Red Hen Press. His poetry has appeared in such literary magazines as The Antioch, Black Warrior, Crab Orchard, and New England Reviews, New Letters, Quarterly West and many others.
Such notable poets as MacArthur Genius Grant winner Campbell McGrath
, National Book Award nominee David Kirby
and Dean Young (poet)
have praised his work. McGrath writes, "THE LUCKLESS AGE captures the wicked energy and anarchic entropy of American culture and so gives voice to an age, a place, a human life. This is an auspicious and heartily welcome debut."
Individual poems have also won recognition from such noted poets as former Poet Laureate of the United States Mark Strand, who selected “The David Lee Roth Fuck Poem…” for the 2008 edition of the Best New Poets anthology, and by the Academy of American Poets, which included the John Mackay Shaw award-winning poem “Bargain” in the ninth volume of its Helen Burns Anthology, edited by Mark Doty. His poem "The Rosenstiel Cycle" won the 1999 Writers at Work Fellowship in Poetry.
He currently is an assistant professor of English at Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi, one of the nation’s premier liberal arts colleges, where he teaches courses in creative writing, literature and popular culture. He received his doctorate from the Florida State University, where he was the Edward and Marie C. Kingsbury Fellow, an award given to the outstanding graduate students in the College of Arts and Sciences; he also holds an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he taught creative writing as the Joseph and Ursil Callan Scholar, List of Iowa Writers' Workshop people, and was a classmate of such notable writers as Yiyun Li
, Nam Le
, and Daniel Alarcón
.
He was awarded an M.A. from the Johns Hopkins University, and a B.A. from the College of William and Mary in Virginia.
Millsaps College
Millsaps College is a private liberal arts college located in Jackson, Mississippi. Founded in 1890, the college is recognized as one of the country's best private colleges dedicated to undergraduate teaching and educating the whole individual. Affiliated with the United Methodist Church, Millsaps...
] in Jackson, MS.
His first book of poems THE LUCKLESS AGE was selected by Nick Flynn as the winner of the 2010 Benjamin Saltman Award and will be published in early 2011 by Red Hen Press. His poetry has appeared in such literary magazines as The Antioch, Black Warrior, Crab Orchard, and New England Reviews, New Letters, Quarterly West and many others.
Such notable poets as MacArthur Genius Grant winner Campbell McGrath
Campbell McGrath
Campbell McGrath is a notable modern American poet. He is the author of nine full-length collections of poetry, including his most recent, Seven Notebooks , Shannon: A Poem of the Lewis and Clark Expedition , and In the Kingdom of the Sea Monkeys .- Life :McGrath was born in Chicago, Illinois, and...
, National Book Award nominee David Kirby
David Kirby (poet)
David Kirby is an American poet and the Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of English at Florida State University . His most recent book is The Temple Gate Called Beautiful, published in 2008 by Alice James Books...
and Dean Young (poet)
Dean Young (poet)
Dean Young is a contemporary American poet in the poetic lineage of John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, and Kenneth Koch. Often cited as a second-generation New York School poet, Young also derives influence and inspiration from the work of André Breton, Paul Éluard, and the other French Surrealist poets,...
have praised his work. McGrath writes, "THE LUCKLESS AGE captures the wicked energy and anarchic entropy of American culture and so gives voice to an age, a place, a human life. This is an auspicious and heartily welcome debut."
Individual poems have also won recognition from such noted poets as former Poet Laureate of the United States Mark Strand, who selected “The David Lee Roth Fuck Poem…” for the 2008 edition of the Best New Poets anthology, and by the Academy of American Poets, which included the John Mackay Shaw award-winning poem “Bargain” in the ninth volume of its Helen Burns Anthology, edited by Mark Doty. His poem "The Rosenstiel Cycle" won the 1999 Writers at Work Fellowship in Poetry.
He currently is an assistant professor of English at Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi, one of the nation’s premier liberal arts colleges, where he teaches courses in creative writing, literature and popular culture. He received his doctorate from the Florida State University, where he was the Edward and Marie C. Kingsbury Fellow, an award given to the outstanding graduate students in the College of Arts and Sciences; he also holds an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he taught creative writing as the Joseph and Ursil Callan Scholar, List of Iowa Writers' Workshop people, and was a classmate of such notable writers as Yiyun Li
Yiyun Li
Yiyun Li is a Chinese American writer. Her debut short story collection A Thousand Years of Good Prayers won the 2005 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, and her second collection Gold Boy, Emerald Girl was shortlisted for the same award...
, Nam Le
Nam Le
Nam Thien Le is a Vietnamese-American professional poker player from Huntington Beach, California....
, and Daniel Alarcón
Daniel Alarcón
Daniel Alarcón is an author who lives in Oakland, California; he has been a the Distinguished Visiting Writer at Mills College and a Visiting Writer at California College of the Arts...
.
He was awarded an M.A. from the Johns Hopkins University, and a B.A. from the College of William and Mary in Virginia.