Authors and Illustrators Database

Born: 03/07/1946  Holyoke, Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.ViewFeatures.StringHtmlContent
Parents: John Francis and Teresa Driscoll
Spouse: Lois Larson, political science instructor
Address(es):
Permanent:
Box 29, Interlochen Arts Academy
Interlochen, MI 49643
Permanent:
10250 Diamond Park Rd.
Interlochen , MI 49643
Contact Information:
Phone: 503-352-6151

Image	Title	Genre	Audience	Publisher	Date
	The Goat Fish and the Lover's Knot	Fiction, Michigan, Short Stories	Adult	Detroit, MI : Wayne State University Press	2017
	The world of a few minutes ago : stories - 2013 Michigan Notable Book	Fiction, Michigan, Short Stories	Adult	Detroit : Wayne State University Press	2012
	How Like An Angel: A Novel - 2006 Michigan Notable Book	Fiction	Adult	Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press	2005
	Stardog	Fiction	Adult	Dorling Kindersley	2000
	Lucky Man, Lucky Woman - Pushcart's 1998 Editor' Book Award	Fiction	Adult	Pushcart	1998
	A Hog-Slaughtering Woman - Forward of book by David Marlatt	Fiction	Adult	New Issues Press, Western Michigan University	1996
	Wanting Only to be Heard - AWP Short Fiction Award	Fiction, Short Stories	Adult	University of Massachusetts Press	1992
	Skylight	Fiction	Adult	Orchard	1991
	Building the Cold from Memory	Poetry	Adult	Ithaca House	1989
	Twin Sons of Different Mirrors : Poems in Dialogue - With Bill Meissner and photographs by Nancy Campbell	Poetry	Adult	Milkweed	1989
	Contemporary Michigan Poetry : Poems from the Third Coast - Included in Anthology	Poetry	Adult	Detroit: Wayne State University Press	1988
	Fishing the Backwash	Poetry	Adult	Ithaca House	1984
	The Language of Bone	Poetry	Adult	Spring Valley	1980
	Home Grown	Poetry	Adult	Peaceweed	1973
	- Contibutor to North West Review, Poetry Northwest, Chelsea, Three Rivers Poetry Journal, Kansas Quarterly, Shenandoah, Ohio Review

What is the aim or goal of your writing: In the 2nd Edition of Michigan Authors he is credited with: "Broadly speaking, my poems deal with the impossibility of maintaining human relationships. For example, in a series of poems ("Searching for Love") two people (let's call them husband and wife) are continually visited by a third who turns out to be the force that either pushes them apart or pulls them back together. In fact, this third person may not even be a separate identity but rather a part of each of them experiencing change. Sometimes we find a reconciliation, sometimes not. If not, we find characters in reclusion sorting out their lives. If so, we find a new set of rules by which to live, at least for a little while."

May inquiries be sent to you about doing workshops, readings: No

Donated books to the Authors & Illustrators database project: No

Skills:
Author

Name	Date
Michigan Notable Book for The World of a Few Minutes Ago	2013
Society of Midland Authors Award - The World of a Few Minutes Ago	2013
Pushcart Editor's Book Award, for "Lucky Man, Lucky Woman"	1998
Associated Writing Programs Award for Short Fiction for "Wanting Only to be Heard"	1992
Literary Michigan by the Michigan Council for the Humanities	1988
NEA Fellowship	1982
Pen/Nelson Algren Fiction Award

MeLCat Links:
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