Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Book Signings at AWP!

Southern Illinois University Press and the Crab Orchard Review will be at AWP in Chicago, February 29-March 3, 2012. Several poets in the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry will be signing their books at our booth in the exhibit hall (#617, 619). We invite you to stop by and meet them.


Thursday, March 1


1:00 pm, Claire McQuerry

Claire McQuerry is a creative writing fellow at the University of Missouri-Columbia and an editor for The Missouri Review. She was a 2011 Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg prizewinner and a finalist for the Olive B. O'Connor fellowship in creative writing. Her poetry and nonfiction have appeared in American Literary Review, Louisville Review, The Los Angeles Review, Western Humanities Review, Creative Nonfiction, and other journals.



Friday, March 2

11:00 am, Traci Brimhall

Traci Brimhall, who received her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College, recently completed a Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellowship at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her poems have appeared in New England Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, FIELD, Southern Review, Indiana Review, and other journals.








12:00 pm, Jake Adam York

Jake Adam York is an associate professor of English at the University of Colorado, Denver. His previous volume in this sequence, A Murmuration of Starlings, was published by Southern Illinois University Press in 2008. His poems have appeared in various journals, including Blackbird, Diagram, Greensboro Review, Gulf Coast, H_NGM_N, New Orleans Review, Shenandoah, and Southern Review.





1:30 pm, Brian Barker

Brian Barker teaches at the University of Colorado Denver, where he coedits the literary journal Copper Nickel. His first book of poems, The Animal Gospels, won the Tupelo Press Editors’ Prize and was published in 2006. Also the recipient of an Academy of American Poets Prize and the 2009 Campbell Corner Poetry Prize, Barker has published in a number of journals, including Poetry, Ploughshares, Agni, American Book Review, The Writer’s Chronicle, Indiana Review, and Pleiades.





2:30 Lee Ann Roripaugh

Lee Ann Roripaugh, an associate professor of English at the University of South Dakota, is the author of Year of the Snake and Beyond Heart Mountain.






Saturday, March 3

10:00 am Amy Fleury

A native of rural northeast Kansas, Amy Fleury earned an M.F.A. from McNeese State University and has held the Nadya Aisenberg Fellowship at the MacDowell Colony. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in numerous journals, including Southern Poetry Review, North American Review, 21st, Laurel Review, South Dakota Review, and Prairie Schooner.





11:00 am, Camille T. Dungy

Camille T. Dungy is the author of What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison and Suck on the Marrow. She is editor of Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry and co-editor of the From the Fishouse anthology. A recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, her poems have appeared in a number of literary journals and magazines, including The American Poetry Review, The Missouri Review, The Southern Review, and Poetry Daily. She teaches at San Francisco State University.



12:00 pm, Oliver de la Paz

Oliver de la Paz is the author of three collections of poetry: Names Above Houses, Furious Lullaby, and Requiem for an Orchard. He is the co-editor with Stacy Lynn Brown of A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poetry. His poems have appeared in the Literary Review, Quarterly West, Third Coast, and Asian Pacific American Review, and in the anthology Tilting the Continent: Southeast Asian American Literature. He received his M.F.A. in creative writing at Arizona State University.



1:00 pm, Jennifer Richter

Jennifer Richter was awarded a Wallace Stegner Fellowship and Jones Lectureship in Poetry by Stanford University, where she taught in the Creative Writing Program for four years. Her work has appeared in The Missouri Review, Crab Orchard Review, Poetry, Ploughshares, Open City, and in the anthology A Fierce Brightness: Twenty-five Years of Women’s Poetry. She currently teaches poetry in elementary schools and lives in Oregon with her children and her husband.


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