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Monday, August 29, 2011

Welcome Peter Campion

Image of Peter CampionPoet, critic, and editor Peter Campion joins the Department of English this fall as Assistant Professor of Creative Writing. Campion, winner of a 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship, is the author of two collections of poetry, The Lions and Other People. Since 2007, he has served as the editor-in-chief of the journal Literary Imagination. He held the Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Poetry from Stanford University and is the recipient of the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters as well as a Pushcart Prize. He received his MA in Creative Writing from Boston University and previously taught at Auburn University. Professor Campion will teach a graduate level poetry writing class this fall.