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Name
  
Gregory Loselle

Role
  
Poet


Education
  
University of Michigan

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Nominations
  
Robert Olen Butler Prize

Loselle Reading, GIHS 2008


Gregory Loselle (born 1963) is an American poet, dramatist, and writer of short fiction.

Winner of the Ruby Lloyd Apsey Award for Playwriting in 1988, for "New York Times," and author of a short play published by The Dramatic Publishing Company in 1981, his fiction has been published in the Georgetown Review and The Saturday Evening Post (his short story, "Lazarus," which won The Lorian Hemingway Short Fiction Competition in 2009), while his poetry has appeared in literary journals such as Alehouse, Oberon, The Comstock Review, Inkwell, Sow's Ear, The Pannus Index, The Pinch and Rattle and has won several competitions and awards, including The Rita Dove Poetry Prize in the Salem College International Writing Awards and the Robert Frost Foundation's Robert Frost Award for Poetry in 2009. He won four Hopwood Awards for Creative Writing, and the Academy of American Poets Prize, at the University of Michigan, where he earned an MFA in Creative Writing.

Loselle is the author of two short collections of poetry, "Phantom Limb" and "Our Parents Dancing," published by Puddinghouse Press. Both have been made available through Google Books. Two others, The Whole of Him Collected (2012) and "About the House," (2013) have been published by Finishing Line Press.

He teaches secondary English and Art History at Gabriel Richard Catholic high school in Riverview Michigan (US) schools.

References

Gregory Loselle Wikipedia