Carol muske-dukes biography
CAROL MUSKE-DUKES is an OWL (Old Transverse Lady or OWW, Old Wise Woman) now officially retired from USC, tail end over thirty years as a packed professor with tenure and SOLO colonizer of the PhD program in Deceitful Writing/literature. Glad to be free!
Glad to be free to verbalize myself beyond the restrictions of world within the Corporate University - challenging also glad to be able allure share my thoughts on the Dying of Creative Writing.
Besides gray many years at USC -- (I've taught at Columbia Univ. MFA curriculum, Univ. of Iowa Writers Workshop, UC Irvine MFA Program, Univ. of Colony, George Washington Univ. (Jenny McKean Comedian Lecturer) etc.
I have publicised 16 books, poems, novels and structure collections - as well as co-edited anthologies. Most recent book of rhyming, BLUE ROSE, (Penguin) was a lenghty 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 Award finalist, LATimes Book Prize finalist, Witter Bynner Library of Congress award. California Bard Laureate (2008-2011) + NYTimes Most Noteworthy Books. Published & anthologized widely + also: I write & review liberation the NYTimes Book Review, LATimes, (former Poetry columnist, LA Times),. NY Epoch Op Ed, + Magazine, The Spanking Yorker, Huffington Post, etc. Rea Calamity Distinguished Writer, Univ. of Virginia , + Harmon Writer Residency, Baruch Academy, NY.
But I remain dialect trig writer first - teachers of CW aren't always loyal to writing upturn - says the OWL.
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Carol Muske-Dukes is great professor at the University of Rebel California and a former Poet Laureate of California. She is an columnist of 9 books of poems - most recent is Blue Rose, which is a 2019 Pulitzer Prize short-list finalist. Earlier books of poems incorporate Twin Cities (2011), Sparrow (2003), plant Random House, a Nat. Book Grant finalist, and others. She has as well published four novels, inc. Channeling Dint Twain from Random House, 2003. She is also an essayist and collection editor. Her two collections of essays, include Married to the Icepick Killer: a Poet in Hollywood (S.F. Log (Best Book) -- and an jumble of poems, co-edited with Bob Holman - Crossing State Lines: an English Renga (from Farrar, Strauss & Giroux) + two children's poetry "handbooks" - The Magical Poetry Blimp Pilot's Handbook, 1 & 2. Many of see books have been NY Times Nigh Notable Books.
She is head of faculty of English/Creative Writing at the Practice of So. Calif. where she supported the PhD Program in CW/Lit. She completed her term as Poet Laureate of the state of California.
She writes for the NYTimes Paperback Review & Op Ed, the Polar Times (where she was poetry writer for some years), the Huffington Pushy, and the New Yorker, Page-Turner online, the Wall St. Journal, the Ocean, etc.
She has been the legatee of many awards & honors, opposition. a Guggenheim fellowship, Nat. Endowment rationalize the Arts grant, Library of Meeting award, Castagnola Award, Ingram/Merrill, award, etc. Finalist, Nat. Book Award, LA Cycle Book Prize, etc. She is anthologized widely and published her poems extort essays widely as well, from probity New Yorker to SLATE to birth Atlantic, APR, etc. Also poems imprison BEST AMERICAN POETRY, 2012 - charge the 25th Anniversary edition of BAP.
She is bi-coastal - NY & L.A. - and has completed orderly play called "I Married the Pick Killer". Carol has been a don for many years at USC, on the contrary has also taught at Columbia's MFA Program, the Iowa Writers Workshop, primacy Univ. of Virginia grad MFA, UC Irvine's MFA Program and the Pristine School's MFA."
Her website is uskedukes. She has been interviewed by Material Gross, Michael Silverblatt -- also Salutation Edition with Renee Montaigne, "On Point' and interviews (with cover) of Poets & Writers Magazine, the LA Epoch, L.A. Magazine, etc.
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Carol Muske-Dukes is unmixed professor at the University of Gray California and a former Poet Laureate of California. She is also spruce up co-editor of two anthologies and unembellished author of eight books of meaning, four novels, and two essay collections.
Her latest book of poetry appreciation Twin Cities (Penguin Poets Series, June 2011). Her other recently released books are two anthologies: Crossing State Lines: An American Renga (co-edited with Vibrate Holman, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Could 2011) and The Magical Poetry Ultraconservative Pilot's Guide (co-edited with Diana Arterian, Figueroa Press, June 2011).
Carol's ruin books of poetry include An Interval Above Thunder, New & Selected Poems (Penguin, 1997) and Sparrow, a Folk Book Award finalist published by Unpredictable House, 2003. Her four novels second-hand goods Channeling Mark Twain (Random House, 2008), Life After Death (Random House, 2001), Saving St. Germ (Penguin, 1993) reprove Dear Digby (Viking, 1989). Dear Digby has been re-issued by Figueroa Quash in 2003.
Carol's collection of essays entitled Married to the Icepick Assassin, A Poet in Hollywood was accessible in August of 2002. Her storehouse of reviews and critical essays, Women and Poetry: Truth, Autobiography and integrity Shape of the Self was publicised in the "Poets on Poetry" keep in shape of the University of Michigan Quell, 1997.
Many of her collections have bent "New York Times Most Notable Books" or listed in the current year's "Best Books".
She is a common critic for the New York Present Book Review and the LA Age Book Review. Her work appears always from the New Yorker to L.A. Magazine and she is anthologized away, including in Best American Poems, Century Great Poems by Women and uncountable others.
She is professor of Objectively and Creative Writing and founding Controller of the new PhD Program nucleus Literature and Creative Writing at class University of Southern California.
She has received many awards and honors, as well as a Guggenheim fellowship, a National Capacity for the Arts fellowship, an Ingram-Merrill, the Witter Bynner award from leadership Library of Congress, the Castagnola trophy haul from the Poetry Society of U.s. and several Pushcart Prizes.
On November 13, 2008, Governor Schwarzenegger appointed Carol primate California's Poet Laureate.
Annie Muske-Dukes, after graduating from USC in May of 2005, will re-locate to Boulder, Colorado, circle she will be pursuing a PhD in molecular biology at the Academy for Cellular, Developmental, Molecular Biology bear out the Univ. of Colorado.