William Greenway

Poet

Youngstown, OH

Ohio US

Email:

whgreenway@ysu.edu

Website:

www.as.ysu.edu/~english/faculty/g…

Author's Bio

I'm a native of Atlanta and got my B.A. from Georgia State University. I have a Ph.D. in Modern Literature and Poetry from Tulane University, and am Professor of English at Youngstown State University, where I've taught since 1986, and where I've been awarded Distinguished Professorships in both teaching and scholarship (thrice). My tenth full-length collection is The Accidental Garden. My ninth full-length collection, Everywhere at Once, is from the University of Akron Press Poetry Series, which also published my seventh collection, Ascending Order (2003), winner of the 2004 Ohioana Poetry Book of the Year Award, and I Have My Own Song For It: Modern Poems of Ohio (2002), which I co-edited with Elton Glaser. My eighth full-length collection, Fishing at the End of the World, is from Word Press (2005), which is also publishing my newest full-length collection, The Accidental Garden, in 2014.

My publications include Poetry, American Poetry Review, Southern Review, Georgia Review, Prairie Schooner, Poetry Northwest, and Shenandoah.

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:

Good Poems for Hard Times (Viking, 2006)

Poetry Daily: 365 Poems from the World's Most Popular Website (Sourcebooks, 2003)

The Poetry Anthology, 1912-2002 (Ivan R. Dee, 2002)

Books:

Everywhere at Once (Akron University Press, 2008)

Twice Removed (Main Street Rag, 2006)

Fishing at the End of the World (Word Press, 2005)

Ascending Order (University of Akron Press, 2003)

Simmer Dim (University of Akron Press, 2003)

Father Dreams (State Street Press, 1994)

How the Dead Bury the Dead (University of Akron Press, 1994)

Rain in Most Places (March Street Press, 1992)

Where We've Been (Breitenbush Books, 1987)

Pressure Under Grace (Breitenbush Books, 1982)

Journals:

American Poetry Review

Shenandoah

Prizes won:

I’ve won the Helen and Laura Krout Memorial Poetry Award, the Larry Levis Editors’ Prize from Missouri Review, the Open Voice Poetry Award from The Writer's Voice, the State Street Press Chapbook Competition, an Ohio Arts Council Grant, an Academy of American Poets Prize, and have been Georgia Author of the Year. My collections Ascending Order (2003)and Everywhere at Once (2009)won Ohioana Best Book of Poetry Prizes.

More Information

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Identifies as:

Welsh American

Prefers to work with:

Any

Fluent in:

English

Born in:

Atlanta

Raised in:

Smyrna and Marietta, GA

Georgia

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Last update: Nov 18, 2015