Stuart Dischell

Stuart Dischell is an American poet and Professor in English Creative Writing in the Master of Fine Arts Program at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Career

Stuart Dischell studied Literature at Antioch College and received his Master of Fine Arts degree at the Writers workshop of the University of Iowa, where he studied poetry with Donald Justice, Stanley Plumly and Jon Anderson. After graduating Iowa, he moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts and taught at Boston University. Since 1992, he has taught Creative Writing in the Master of Fine Arts Program at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He also taught in the Sarah Lawrence Summer Literary Seminars and in the Low Residency at Warren Wilson College.

Publications

Animate Earth, Jeanne Duvall Editions, 1988
Good Hope Road, Viking Books, 1993
Evening and Avenues, Penguin Books, 1996
Dig Safe Penguin Books, 2003
Backwards Days, Penguin Books, 2007
Touch Monkey, Forklift Ink., 2013
Standing on Z, Unicorn Press, 2016
Children with Enemies, University Of Chicago Press, 2017
The lookout man, University Of Chicago Press, 2022

Stuart Dischell has also been published in anthologies like Essential Pleasures: A New Anthology of Poems to Read Aloud, Hammer and Blaze: A Gathering of Contemporary American Poets ''The Pushcart prize, XIX, 1994-1995: best of the small presses, and Good Poems and in various media such as The Atlantic, New Republic, Agni, From the Fishouse, Ploughshares, Slate, The Kenyon Review and the Alaska Quarterly Review''.

Awards and honors

National Poetry Series Award, 1991
Pushcart Prize, 1994
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, 1996
North Carolina Arts Fellowship, 2001
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, 2004
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, 2008.