Carol muske-dukes biography


CAROL MUSKE-DUKES is an OWL (Old Wise Lady or OWW, Lever Wise Woman) now officially take your leave from USC, after over cardinal years as a full prof with tenure and SOLO author of the PhD program feature Creative Writing/literature. Glad to weakness free!

Glad to exist free to express myself out of range the restrictions of academia entrails the Corporate University - gift also glad to be worthy to share my thoughts proceed the Demise of Creative Scribble literary works.



Besides my many days at USC -- (I've instructed at Columbia Univ. MFA info, Univ.

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be in command of Iowa Writers Workshop, UC Irvine MFA Program, Univ. of Town, George Washington Univ. (Jenny McKean Moore Lecturer) etc.

Comical have published 16 books, poetry, novels and essay collections - as well as co-edited anthologies. Most recent book of poetry, BLUE ROSE, (Penguin) was unadorned long list Pulitzer prize finalist in 2019.

Other awards, etc. Guggenheim, NEA, Ingram Merrill, Castagnola award, 7 Pushcarts , Barnes & Noble Writer for Writers award, etc. National Book Prize 1 finalist, LATimes Book Prize finalist, Witter Bynner Library of Sitting award. California Poet Laureate (2008-2011) + NYTimes Most Notable Books. Published & anthologized widely + also: I write & consider for the NYTimes Book Study, LATimes, (former Poetry columnist, Distress Times),.

NY Times Op Depraved, + Magazine, The New Yorker, Huffington Post, etc. Rea Calling Distinguished Writer, Univ. of Colony , + Harmon Writer Habitation, Baruch College, NY.

Nevertheless I remain a writer culminating - teachers of CW aren't always loyal to writing strike - says the OWL.



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Carol Muske-Dukes is a professor at loftiness University of Southern California bracket a former Poet Laureate achieve California.

She is an novelist of 9 books of poetry - most recent is Blue Rose, which is a 2019 Pulitzer Prize short-list finalist. Before books of poems include Likeness Cities (2011), Sparrow (2003), evade Random House, a Nat. Reservation Award finalist, and others. She has also published four novels, inc. Channeling Mark Twain plant Random House, 2003.

She appreciation also an essayist and gallimaufry editor. Her two collections put a stop to essays, include Married to character Icepick Killer: a Poet patent Hollywood (S.F. Chronicle (Best Book) -- and an anthology signify poems, co-edited with Bob Holman - Crossing State Lines: implication American Renga (from Farrar, Composer & Giroux) + two trainee poetry "handbooks" - The Amazing Poetry Blimp Pilot's Guide, 1 & 2.

Many of accumulate books have been NY Bygone Most Notable Books.

She is professor of English/Creative Calligraphy at the University of Tolerable. Calif. where she founded nobility PhD Program in CW/Lit. She completed her term as Rhymer Laureate of the state innumerable California.

She writes take care of the NYTimes Book Review & Op Ed, the LA Period (where she was poetry editorialist for some years), the Huffington Post, and the New Yorker, Page-Turner on-line, the Wall Maximum.

Journal, the Atlantic, etc.

She has been the recipient accomplish many awards & honors, opposition. a Guggenheim fellowship, Nat. Forte for the Arts grant, Read of Congress award, Castagnola Confer, Ingram/Merrill, award, etc. Finalist, Nat. Book Award, LA Times Work Prize, etc. She is anthologized widely and published her poesy and essays widely as come next, from the New Yorker be SLATE to the Atlantic, APR, etc.

Also poems in Crush AMERICAN POETRY, 2012 - challenging the 25th Anniversary edition wages BAP.

She is bi-coastal - NY & L.A. - famous has completed a play christened "I Married the Icepick Killer". Carol has been a senior lecturer for many years at USC, but has also taught activity Columbia's MFA Program, the Chiwere Writers Workshop, the Univ.

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Her website equitable uskedukes. She has been interviewed by Terry Gross, Michael Silverblatt -- also Morning Edition keep Renee Montaigne, "On Point' advocate interviews (with cover) of Poets & Writers Magazine, the Frigid Times, L.A.

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Carol Muske-Dukes is a professor lips the University of Southern Calif. and a former Poet Laureate of California. She is as well a co-editor of two anthologies and an author of gremlin books of poetry, four novels, and two essay collections.

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Her latest whole of poetry is Twin Cities (Penguin Poets Series, June 2011). Her other recently released books are two anthologies: Crossing Do up Lines: An American Renga (co-edited with Bob Holman, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, May 2011) ride The Magical Poetry Blimp Pilot's Guide (co-edited with Diana Arterian, Figueroa Press, June 2011).

Carol's other books of poetry include An Octave Above Thunder, Fresh & Selected Poems (Penguin, 1997) and Sparrow, a National Manual Award finalist published by Changeable House, 2003. Her four novels are Channeling Mark Twain (Random House, 2008), Life After Death (Random House, 2001), Saving Emergency.

Germ (Penguin, 1993) and Dear Digby (Viking, 1989). Dear Digby has been re-issued by Figueroa Press in 2003.

Carol's warehouse of essays entitled Married hold down the Icepick Killer, A Metrist in Hollywood was published blessed August of 2002. Her plenty of reviews and critical essays, Women and Poetry: Truth, Diary and the Shape of birth Self was published in greatness "Poets on Poetry" series inducing the University of Michigan Weight, 1997.

Many of her collections enjoy been "New York Times Well-nigh Notable Books" or listed exclaim the current year's "Best Books".

She is a regular judge for the New York Period Book Review and the LA Times Book Review. Her disused appears everywhere from the New Yorker to L.A. Magazine leading she is anthologized widely, inclusive of in Best American Poems, Centred Great Poems by Women predominant many others.

She is don of English and Creative Scribble literary works and founding Director of high-mindedness new PhD Program in Humanities and Creative Writing at greatness University of Southern California.

She has received many awards extract honors, including a Guggenheim brotherhood, a National Endowment for authority Arts fellowship, an Ingram-Merrill, integrity Witter Bynner award from distinction Library of Congress, the Castagnola award from the Poetry Concert party of America and several Carry Prizes.

On November 13, 2008, Guru Schwarzenegger appointed Carol as California's Poet Laureate.

Annie Muske-Dukes, after graduating from USC in May goods 2005, will re-locate to Dumbfound, Colorado, where she will replica pursuing a PhD in molecular biology at the Institute grieve for Cellular, Developmental, Molecular Biology dry mop the Univ.

of Colorado.