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Corey Mesler [1]

Listed as: 
Poet, Fiction Writer
Public address: 
Memphis, TN
Tennessee US
Email: 
coreyjmesler@gmail.com
Bio: 

COREY MESLER has been published in numerous anthologies and journals including Poetry, Gargoyle, Five Points, Good Poems American Places, and New Stories from the South. He has published nine novels, four short story collections, six full-length poetry collections, and a dozen chapbooks. His novel, Memphis Movie, attracted kind words from Ann Beattie, Peter Coyote, and William Hjorstberg, among others. He’s been nominated for the Pushcart many times, and three of his poems were chosen for Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac. He also wrote the screenplay for We Go On, which won The Memphis Film Prize in 2017. With his wife he runs Burke's Book Store (est. 1875) in Memphis. 

 

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
No
Favorite authors: 
Iris Murdoch, Steve Stern, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, John Berryman, Anne Sexton, W. S. Merwin, John Updike, Peter DeVries, Toni Morrison, Steven Millhauser, John Barth, James Tate, Mark Strand, John Crowley, Philip Roth, Saul Bellow, Franz Kafka, Albert Camus, Don DeLillo, Vladimir Nabokov, Graham Greene.
Twitter/X: 
coreymesler
Born in: 
Niagara Falls
Raised in: 
Memphis, TN
Tennessee
Website: 
https://www.coreymesler.wordpress.com [2]
Prizes won: 

Memphis Film Prize, 2017 (screenplay)

First Place Feature Writing, Memphis Magazine, 1999

SouthWest InfoNet Library Director's Award, 2004

What I'm reading now: 
Mumbo Jumbo by Ishmael Reed
Identifies as: 
White
Prefers to work with: 
Any

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[1] https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/corey_mesler_0 [2] https://www.coreymesler.wordpress.com