Tony Barnstone

13406 Philadelphia Street
Whittier, CA 90608
Phone: 562-907-4200 ext. 4335
E-mail: tbarnstone@aol.com
Website: http://www.barnstone.com

Author's Bio

Tony Barnstone is Professor of English at Whittier College. Born in Middletown, Connecticut, and raised in Bloomington, Indiana, Barnstone lived for years in Greece, Spain, Kenya and China before taking his Masters in English and Creative Writing and Ph.D. in English Literature at U.C. Berkeley. His poetry, translations, essays on poetics, and fiction have appeared in dozens of American literary journals, from APR to Agni.

Publications and Prizes

Books:

The Golem of Los Angeles (Red Hen Press, 2008), Chinese Erotic Poems (Everyman, 2007), Sad Jazz: Sonnets (Sheep Meadow Press, 2005), The Anchor Book of Chinese Poetry: The Full 300 Year Tradition (Anchor Books, 2005), Literatures of Asia (Prentice Hall, 2003), Impure (University of Florida Press, 1999), Literatures of Asia, Africa and Latin America (Prentice Hall, 1998), The Art of Writing: Teachings of the Chinese Masters (Shambhala, 1996), Out of the Howling Storm: The New Chinese Poetry (Wesleyan University Press, 1993), Laughing Lost in the Mountains: Poems of Wang Wei (University Press of New England, 1991)

Journals:

Agni, Literary Review, Nimrod, North American Review

Prizes:

Tony Barnstone has won fellowships and prizes from the National Endowment for the Arts, the California Arts Council, the Pushcart Prize, the Paumanok Poetry Award, the Randall Jarrell Poetry Prize, The Sow's Ear Poetry Contest, the Milton Dorfman Poetry Prize, the National Poetry Competition (Chester H. Jones Foundation), the Pablo Neruda Prize in Poetry, the Cecil Hemley Award, and the Poetry Society of America. In 2006 he won the Benjamin Saltman Award in Poetry for his manuscript The Golem of Los Angeles, which was published by Red Hen Press in 2007. He won the John Ciardi Prize in Poetry in 2008 for Tongue of War (forthcoming, BKMK Press) and won the grand prize in the Strokestown International Poetry Festival, in Strokestown, Ireland, in 2008.

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Listing last updated: July 26, 2011

More Information

Listed as:

Poet

Gives readings?

Yes

Travels for readings?

Yes

Identifies as:

Greek American, Jewish

Prefers to work with:

Any

Fluent in:

Spanish

Born in:

Middletown, CT

Raised in:

Bloomington, IN

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