Miles Wilson

Poet, Fiction Writer

San Marcos, TX

Texas US

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Author's Bio

I was born in Belle Fourche, South Dakota, raised in South Dakota and Washington, and educated at Pomona College and the University of Oregon. I worked in fire control for the U. S. Forest Service in California and Oregon, served as managing partner for a small logging and lumber company, and have taught at colleges in Oregon and Texas. I am distinguished professor emeritus at Texas State University, where I was founding director of the MFA program

Publications & Prizes

Fiction

Books:

McKenzie Rising--An American Frolic (University of Nevada Press, 2022)

Woodswork: New and Selected Stories of the American West (University of New Mexico Press, 2018)

Fire Season (Stephen F. Austin State University Press, 2014)

Line of Fall (University of Iowa Press, 1989)

Journals:

Shenandoah

Poetry

Book:

Harm (University of Nevada Press, 2003)

Journals:

Georgia Review

North American Review

Poetry

Prizes won:

John Simmons Short Fiction Award for Line of Fall; Western Heritage Award and Violet Crown Book Award for Harm; shortlisted for AWP Award in the Novel and Short Fiction, Sullivan Prize, Akron Poetry Prize, Willa Cather Prize, Brittingham Prize, Wesleyan Poetry Series, Drue Heinz Prize, Flannery O'Connor Award. Fellowships from Writers' League of Texas, Christopher Isherwood Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts

More Information

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Fluent in:

English

Born in:

Belle Fourche, SD

South Dakota

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Last update: Jan 27, 2024