Abridged Curriculum Vitae
Education
M.F.A., Creative Writing (Poetry), Cornell University
Advisory Committee: Alice Fulton, Ishion Hutchinson
M.A., English Literature, University of Toronto
Advisory Committee: Carmine Starnino, Richard Greene
B.A., English Literature, University of British Columbia
Awards & Honors (Poetry)
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Recipient, The New York Public Library Cullman Center Fellowship (2021)
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Winner, BC & Yukon Book Prizes' Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize for Burning Province (2021)
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Shortlist, Raymond Souster Award for Burning Province (2021)
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Winner, The Canada-Japan Literary Award for Burning Province (2021)
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Recipient, Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship (2021)
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Second Place, Crazyhorse Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry Prize for "Broken Record" (2021)
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Second Place, Sewanee Review Poetry Contest for "Palinode" (2020)
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Recipient, Canada Council for the Arts grant (2020)
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First Runner Up, The American Academy in Rome Prize (2020)
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Recipient, Wallace Stegner Fellowship (declined) (2019)
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Recipient, Canada Council for the Arts grant (2018)
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Winner, Matrix Magazine Lit POP Award for Poetry for "Some Notes Regarding Your Immortal Soul,” “Toll,” and “The More Deceived" (2015)
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Second Place, The Fiddlehead Bliss Carman Poetry Prize for "Hinny" (2015)
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Winner, The Walrus Poetry Prize for "Ventriloquism for Dummies" (2014)
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Second Place, The New Quarterly Nick Blatchford Occasional Verse Contest for "The Fisher" (2014)
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Winner, Magma Poetry Editors' Prize for "Lamprey" (2013)
Awards & Honors (Teaching)
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Martin Sampson Teaching Award - Cornell University, Department of English (2019)
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Martin Sampson Teaching Award - Cornell University, Department of English (2018)
Teaching
Assistant Professor of English and Mellon ACM Faculty Fellow, Macalester College
(2019 - present)
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ENGL 105: Introduction to Asian American Literature
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ENGL 150: Introduction to Creative Writing
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ENGL 280: Crafts of Writing (Poetry)
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ENGL 406: Projects in Creative Writing - Majors Seminar
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ENGL 494: Poetry Chapbooks
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ENGL 612: Independent Project (Poetry)
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ENGL 642: Honors Independent Project (Poetry)
Lecturer in the Department of English, Cornell University (2016 - 2019)
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ENGL 2880: Expository Writing (Creative Non-fiction). 2 sections
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ENGL 2800: Introduction to Creative Writing. 4 sections
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ENGL 4950: Directed Studies in Creative Writing. 2 sections
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ENGL 1168: Cultural Studies - Art & Argument. 2 sections
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ENGL 1167: Great New Books. 2 sections
Teaching Assistant in the Department of English, Cornell University (2016)
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ENGL 1131: Latin American History. 1 section
Teaching Assistant in the Department of English, University of Toronto (2014 - 2015)
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ENGL 210: Introduction to Poetry. 1 section
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ENGL 110: Academic Writing. 1 section
Select Interviews
"Landscape as Mindscape: a Conversation with Michael Prior," by Benjamin Voigt (The Rumpus, April 2021)
"The Transmutation of Fire - an Interview with Michael Prior," by Wendy Chen (Tupelo Quarterly, July 2020)
"Michael Prior: Burning Province," by John Endo Greenway (The Bulletin, September 2020)