Alexander Long

Alexander Long is an associate professor in the Department of English.  Professor Long is the author of Still Life, winner of the White Pine Press Poetry Prize, selected by Aliki Barnstone (poems, 2011), Light Here, Light There (prose poems, C & R Press, 2009), and Vigil (poems, New Issues Press, 2006).  With Christopher Buckley, Long is co-editor of A Condition of the Spirit: the Life & Work of Larry Levis (Eastern Washington UP, 2004).  He has also published two chapbooks of poems, Still Life, which won the 2010 Center for Book Arts Chapbook Competition, selected by Terrance Hayes and Six Prose Poems (Brandenburg Press, 2004).  He has contributed the essays on William Matthews and William Stafford to Charles Scribners' Sons American Writers series.  His poems, essays, and book reviews have appeared in AGNI, American Poetry Review, Blackbird, Callaloo, Crab Orchard Review, Miramar, Pleiades, Quarterly West, The Southern Review, Third Coast, and Valparaiso Poetry Review among others.  Professor Long has received grants, awards, and residencies from such organizations as The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, The Vermont Studio Center, The Prague Summer Seminars, The College of Physicians of Philadelphia, and The Professional Staff Congress--CUNY, among others.  He is a thirteen-time nominee for a Pushcart Prize: the Best of the Small Presses.  Currently, Professor Long is at work on a literary biography of the American poet Larry Levis.