J.V. Brummels is a recipient of a National Endowment
for the Arts Literature Fellowship and the Mildred Bennett Award for
contributions to the literature of Nebraska. A member of the English
Department of Wayne State College since 1977, Brummels has directed
the Plains Writers Series and edited Nebraska Territory. He
and Jim Reese operate Logan House, an independent publisher of
contemporary poetry and short fiction. He lives in Wayne County,
where he and his family run a horseback cattle operation. >back to top |
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(Delacorte
Press)
Sean Doolittle grew up in southeastern Nebraska. He is the award-winning author of Dirt, Burn, Rain Dogs, and The Cleanup. Doolittle was named the Nebraska Literary Heritage Association Honorary Author Member for 2007-08. He holds a Master of Arts degree from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, where he won the Mari Sandoz Prize for his fiction. >back to top |
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Kelly Madigan Erlandson has worked since 1983 as a drug and alcohol counselor and is the award-winning author of Getting Sober: A Practical Guide to Making it Through the First 30 Days. She is also an accomplished poet and essayist whose work has been published in literary magazines and anthologies such as Best New Poets 2007, Crazyhorse, Prairie Schooner, Barrow Street, The Massachusetts Review, Calyx, Natural Bridge, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of a 2008 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and received a Distinguished Artist Award from the Nebraska Arts Council in 2006. Erlandson recently won first place in the 2009 International Reginald Shepherd Memorial Poetry Prize, through Knockout Literary Journal. She is a sought-after presenter for conferences and training events for counselors or other health professionals, church groups, schools, writing workshops, lecture series, and readings. >back to top |
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(University of
Chicago Press) With Ted Kooser (Preface) and David Wishart (Introduction and Chapter Text). Photographer Michael Forsberg grew up in Nebraska and is dedicated to working extensively in the prairies of the Great Plains. His work has appeared in such publications as National Geographic, Audubon, Natural History, and National Wildlife and in books published by National Geographic and Smithsonian, among others. >back to top |
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Allison Hedge Coke—Effigies: An Anthology of
New Indigenous Writing (Salt Publishing) Allison Hedge Coke has been an invitational performer in international poetry festivals around the globe. She holds the Distinguished Paul W. Reynolds and Clarice Kingston Reynolds Endowed Chair in Poetry as an Associate Professor of Poetry and Writing at the University of Nebraska at Kearney, where she directs the Reynolds Reading Series and Sandhill Crane Migration Retreat. Hedge Coke has edited numerous poetry collections and is editing two book series of emerging Indigenous writing. Her books Blood Run and Off-Season City Pipe are listed as Poetry contemporary best sellers. She is Huron and Cherokee, French Canadian and Portuguese, and came of age working in fields, waters, and factories. Click here for additional information about Effigies: An Anthology of New Indigenous Writing. |
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(University of Nebraska Press) William Kloefkorn was named the Nebraska State Poet by proclamation of the Unicameral in 1982. A retired professor of English at Nebraska Wesleyan University in Lincoln, he is the author of many collections of poetry, four memoirs, two collections of short fiction, and other books. >back to top |
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Lights on a
Ground of Darkness (University of Nebraska Press) Ted Kooser, a two-time U.S. Poet Laureate (2004-2006), received his bachelor's degree from Iowa State University and his master's degree in English from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He is the author of 10 collections of poetry, including Delights & Shadows, which won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. His other honors include two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, a Pushcart Prize, and the Stanley Kunitz Prize from Columbia University. He teaches in the English department of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln as a visiting professor. >back to top |
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(Broadway) Harley Jane Kozak grew up in Nebraska, attended New York University's graduate acting program, and spent two decades starring in fifty plays, ten feature films, and a dozen TV movies, series, and miniseries. She lives in California with her three children, two dogs and a cat. A Date You Can't Refuse is the fourth in her Wollie Shelley Mysteries series. Kozak taught a week-long writers' workshop at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's 2008 Nebraska Summer Writers' Conference. >back to top |
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The Eiseley Reader The Loren Eiseley Society encourages interest in and knowledge of Eiseley's work, provides a forum for readers and scholars, offers resources and educational/outreach programs and collects and preserves material about Eiseley's life and writing. The Eiseley Reader includes Eiseley's most popular essays in a single collection. Noted author Ray Bradbury wrote the foreword to this collection. >back to top |
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Director of the Bess Streeter Aldrich Foundation, Teresa Lorensen will moderate a discussion of the 2009 One Book One Nebraska selection, A Lantern in Her Hand by Bess Streeter Aldrich. >back to top |
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(Riverhead) After decades as a psychotherapist and best-selling author of such life-changing books as Reviving Ophelia and The Shelter of Each Other, Dr. Mary Pipher turns her attention to herself—collecting insights from her own life to illuminate the importance of the journey, not just the destination. Visit www.marypipher.net for more information. >back to top |
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(University of New Mexico Press). Ladette Randolph is director of the nationally renowned journal Ploughshares and a Distinguished Publisher-in-Residence in the Writing, Literature, and Publishing program at Emerson College, Boston. A former acquiring editor and interim director at University of Nebraska Press, she is the author of the novel A Sandhills Ballad, the short story collection This Is Not the Tropics, and editor of two anthologies, A Different Plain: Contemporary Nebraska Fiction Writers and The Big Empty: Contemporary Nebraska Nonfiction Writers. She is the recipient of the Pushcart prize, a Rona Jaffe Foundation grant, two Nebraska Book Awards, the Virginia Faulkner Award from Prairie Schooner, and she has been reprinted in Best New American Voices. >back to top |
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(University of Nebraska
Press) Hilda Raz was born in Rochester, New York, educated at Boston University, and moved to Nebraska in 1963. She has served as editor, scholar, and fellow at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and is a past president of the Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP). She is a professor of English and women's and gender studies at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, where she is the Glenna Luschei Endowed Editor-in-Chief of Prairie Schooner. >back to top |
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After a distinguished 38-year career in the University of Nebraska at Kearney's English Department, Reynolds Professor of Poetry, Emeritus, Don Welch continues to pursue his dual, life-long professional passions as poet and educator in the creative manner that characterized his distinguished tenure as a professor. Over 300 of his poems have appeared in magazines and journals throughout the United States, and examples of his work have been included in many anthologies. His most recent work is When Memory Gives Dust a Face. He is a winner of the Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry. >back to top |
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(Bethany House) Stephanie Grace Whitson pursues a full-time writing and speaking career from her home studio in Lincoln. Whitson's fiction titles have appeared on the ECPA bestseller list numerous times and have been finalists for the Christy Award, the Inspirational Reader's Choice Award, and ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year. A native of southern Illinois, Whitson has lived in Nebraska since 1975. >back to top |
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