Bob Hicok
Bob teaches in the MFA Program
Bob Hicok's most recent collection of poems is Words for Empty, Words for Full, from The University of Pittsburgh Press. His previous collection, This Clumsy Living, won The Bobbitt Prize from the Library of Congress.
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Nikki Giovanni
Nikki teaches in the MFA Program
Nikki's most recent book is The Best 100 African American Poems. Nikki is a recent winner of the Carl Sandburg Literary Award from Chicago Public Library. The award pays tribute to a writer whose work has helped enhance the public's awareness of the written word. |
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Toad, a new online journal of writing and art, is edited and staffed by Virginia Tech MFA students past and present.
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Julia Tillinghast (MFA 2011) is doing a series of readings and talks in Istanbul, Turkey, with Richard Tillinghast, from their book of Edip Cansever Translantions, Dirty August.
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Chris Linforth (MFA 2013) has edited The Anthem Guide to Short Fiction, from Anthem Press (May, 2011). "Containing 20 classic short stories by renowned authors, The Anthem Guide to Short Fiction is designed for students and instructors to critically think about texts and thier construction." Chris has an essay in a recent Chiron Review, and fiction forthcoming in RipRap and ZAUM.
Fred D'Aguiar
Fred teaches in the MFA Program.
Fred D'Aguiar's most recent collection of poetry, Continental Shelf, was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry and was a Poetry Book Society choice. Fred's many awards for writing include the Guyana Prize for Poetry, for Airy Hall, and the Whitbread First Novel Award, for The Longest Memory. |
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