Donald Morrill is the author of four books of nonfiction, Impetuous Sleeper, The Untouched Minutes (winner of the River Teeth Nonfiction Prize), Sounding for Cool, and A Stranger’s Neighborhood, as well as two volumes of poetry, At the Bottom of the Sky and With Your Back to Half the Day. He has taught at Jilin University, Peoples’ Republic of China, and has been a Fulbright Lecturer at the University of Lodz, Poland, as well as the Bedell Visiting Writer in the Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa and the Tammis Day Writer-in-residence at the Poetry Center at Smith. Currently he teaches in the Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing Program at the University of Tampa and is Associate Dean of Graduate and Continuing Studies there.
His work has appeared in magazines and journals across the country, and in numerous anthologies, garnering several prizes, among them the River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Award, the Emerging Writers of Creative Nonfiction Award from Duquesne University Press, the Mid-List Press First Series Award, The Missouri Review Editors’ Prize for Nonfiction and, most recently, the Anne Halley Poetry Prize from The Massachusetts Review. He has taught at Jilin University, Peoples’ Republic of China, and has been a Fulbright Lecturer at the University of Lodz, Poland, as well as the Bedell Visiting Writer in the Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa,
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For many years, he directed the Writers at the University series at the University of Tampa, and has been a poetry editor of Tampa Review and the University of Tampa Press Poetry Series. Recently, he concluded a term on the AWP Board of Directors.
He is currently Associate Dean of Graduate and Continuing Studies at the University of Tampa and a faculty member of the Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing there.
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