Michael Prior

• Recipient, The New York Public Library Cullman Center Fellowship (2021)

• Winner, BC & Yukon Book Prizes' Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize for Burning Province (2021)

• Shortlist, Raymond Souster Award for Burning Province (2021)

• Winner, The Canada-Japan Literary Award for Burning Province (2021)

• Recipient, Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship (2021)

• Second Place, Crazyhorse Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry Prize for "Broken Record" (2021)

• Second Place, Sewanee Review Poetry Contest for "Palinode" (2020)

• Recipient, Canada Council for the Arts grant (2020)

• First Runner Up, The American Academy in Rome Prize (2020)

• Recipient, Wallace Stegner Fellowship (declined) (2019)

• Recipient, Canada Council for the Arts grant (2018)

• Winner, Matrix Magazine Lit POP Award for Poetry for "Some Notes Regarding Your Immortal Soul,” “Toll,” and “The More Deceived" (2015)

• Second Place, The Fiddlehead Bliss Carman Poetry Prize for "Hinny" (2015)

• Winner, The Walrus Poetry Prize for "Ventriloquism for Dummies" (2014)

• Second Place, The New Quarterly Nick Blatchford Occasional Verse Contest for "The Fisher" (2014)

• Winner, Magma Poetry Editors' Prize for "Lamprey" (2013)

Assistant Professor of English and Mellon ACM Faculty Fellow, Macalester College

(2019 - present)

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Lecturer in the Department of English, Cornell University (2016 - 2019)

• ENGL 2880: Expository Writing (Creative Non-fiction). 2 sections. ​

• ENGL 2800: Introduction to Creative Writing (Fiction, Poetry). 4 sections. ​

• ENGL 4950: Directed Studies in Creative Writing. 2 sections. 

• ENGL 1168: Cultural Studies - Art & Argument. 2 sections. ​

• ENGL 1167: Great New Books. 2 sections. 

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Teaching Assistant in the Department of English, Cornell University (2016)

• ENGL 1131: Latin American History. 1 section.

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Teaching Assistant in the Department of English, University of Toronto (2014 - 2015)

• ENGL 210: Introduction to Poetry. 1 section.

• ENGL 110: Academic Writing. 1 section.