G. C. Waldrep

holds degrees in American history from both Harvard and Duke and an MFA in poetry from the University of Iowa. His first book of poems, Goldbeater's Skin, won the 2003 Colorado Prize for Poetry, judged by Donald Revell, as well as a Greenwall award from the Academy of American Poets. His second full-length collection, Disclamor, is scheduled to appear from BOA Editions in 2007. He is also the author of two chapbooks, "The Batteries" (New Michigan Press, 2006) and "One Way No Exit" (Narwhal, forthcoming). His poems have appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, Gettysburg Review, Boston Review, New England Review, Georgia Review, Colorado Review, American Letters & Commentary, Tin House, New American Writing, and other journals. His work has received awards from the Poetry Society of America, the North Carolina Arts Council, the Campbell Corner Foundation, and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. He has been selected for residencies at Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, the Ucross Foundation, the Headlands Center for the Arts, and elsewhere.

He is also the author of a nonfiction book, Southern Workers and the Search for Community, which won the 2001 Illinois Prize for history. In 2005-06 he served as a visiting professor of poetry and history at Deep Springs College in California. In 2006-07 he served as a visiting assistant professor of English at Kenyon College. He is now an Assistant Professor of English at Bucknell University.

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For Waldrep's commentaries, interviews, and various biographical notes see Image magazine's archived Artist of the Month, this cached page from a defunct blog called Here Comes Everybody, his article from The Boston Review entitled "New England Stories," his "Response and Bio" from Double Room, his first book interview--part of an extensive series of interviews with poets and their first book experiences--at Kate Greenstreet's blog, every other day, and a substantive excerpt from his critical nonfiction book, Southern Workers and the Search for Community (scroll to the bottom of the page for the link).

If you want to hear him read and talk, click on the audio archive link from "Live at Prairie Lights."

For more of his poetry, look up his new book, Disclamor, or do your own Google search for the many many links to individual poems he's published all over the Internet.

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