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Gary Gildner [1]

Listed as: 
Poet, Fiction Writer, Creative Nonfiction Writer
Public address: 
Tucson, AZ
Arizona US
Bio: 

Gary Gildner attended Michigan State University (B.A., M.A.). He has been writer-in-residence at Reed College, Davidson College, Randolph College, Seattle Univ, and Michigan State Univ. He has been a Senior Fulbright Lecturer to Poland and to Czechoslovakia. He has given readings at the Library of Congress, Manhattan Theatre Club, Academy of American Poets, YMHA Poetry Center (NYC), and at some 300 colleges and universities in the U.S. and abroad. He and his wife Michele, a retired attorney, live in the foothills of Arizona's Santa Catalina Mountains.

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Born in: 
West Branch
Raised in: 
Flint, MI
Michigan
Prizes won: 

National Magazine Award for Fiction, Pushcart Prizes in Fiction and Nonfiction, two NEA Fellowships, the Robert Frost Fellowship, the William Carlos Williams and Theodore Roethke Poetry Prizes, the Iowa Poetry Prize, ForeWord Book of the Year.

Prefers to work with: 
Adults

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