Stuart Dischell (born May 29, 1954 in Atlantic City, New Jersey) is an American poet and Professor in English Creative Writing in the Master of Fine Arts Program at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Career
Stuart Dischell studied Literature at Antioch College and received his Master of Fine Arts degree at the Writers workshop of the University of Iowa, where he studied poetry with Donald Justice, Stanley Plumly and Jon Anderson. After graduating Iowa, he moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts and taught at Boston University. Since 1992, he has taught Creative Writing in the Master of Fine Arts Program at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He also taught in the Sarah Lawrence Summer Literary Seminars and in the Low Residency MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.
Publications
Animate Earth (Limited edition), Jeanne Duvall Editions, 1988 Good Hope Road (National Poetry Series), Viking Books, 1993 Evening and Avenues, Penguin Books, 1996 Dig Safe Penguin Books, 2003 Backwards Days, Penguin Books, 2007 Touch Monkey, Forklift Ink., 2013 Standing on Z, Unicorn Press, 2016 Children with Enemies, University Of Chicago Press, 2017 The lookout man, University Of Chicago Press, 2022
Stuart Dischell has also been published in anthologies like Essential Pleasures: A New Anthology of Poems to Read Aloud, Hammer and Blaze: A Gathering of Contemporary American Poets The Pushcart prize, XIX, 1994-1995: best of the small presses, and Good Poems and in various media such as The Atlantic, New Republic, Agni, From the Fishouse, Ploughshares, Slate, The Kenyon Review and the Alaska Quarterly Review.
Awards and honors
National Poetry Series Award, 1991 Pushcart Prize, 1994 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, 1996 North Carolina Arts Fellowship, 2001 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, 2004 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, 2008.
References
External links Stuart Dischell's website: http://www.stuartdischellpoetry.com/ Stuart Dischell's page on North Carolina University in Greensboro website: http://mfagreensboro.org/faculty/stuart-dischell/ National Endowment for the Arts: http://arts.gov/writers-corner/bio/stuart-dischell John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation: http://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/stuart-dischell/ Academy of American Poets: http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/stuart-dischell The Atlantic New Republic Agni From the Fishouse Ploughshares Slate The Kenyon Review Alaska Quarterly Review