Jesse Lee Kercheval | |
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| Occupation | Writer and teacher |
| Nationality | American |
| Genre | textbook, novel, nonfiction, poetry, memoir |
| Notable works | The Museum of Happines, The Dogeater, Space, The Alice Stories |
| Website | |
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Jesse Lee Kercheval is a writing teacher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is also the writer of various genres, notably Building Fiction, The Museum of Happiness, and The Dogeater.
Biography edit
Jesse Lee Kercheval was born in Fontainbleu, France. Raised up in Florida, USA, she studied in Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida. She studied with Janet Burroway, David Kirby, and Jerome Stern there. She also received her Bachelor of Arts in History at the university in 1983.
She then earned her Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, 1986. She then worked at the DePaul University, Greencastle, Indiana, for one year.
She proceeded to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, and was the founding director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing. She is currently the the director of the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing and the Sally Mead Hands Bascom Professor of English.
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Awards edit
Her memoir, Space, won the Alex Award from the American Library Association.[3] The Dogeater won the Associated Writing Programs Award 1986 in Short Fiction. [4] The Alice Stories, won the Prairie Schooner Fiction Book Prize. [5] [6] Her novella, Brazil, was the winner of the Ruthanne Wiley Memorial Novella Contest.[5] David Wojahn selected her poetry collection Cinema Muto for the Crab Orchard Open Selection Award. The Center for Book Arts Poetry Chapbook Prize 2006 was also won by her chapbook, Film History as a Train Wreck. [7]
References edit
- ^ a b c d Jesse Lee Kercheval, Building Fiction, P.6
- ^ Jesse Lee Kercheval, Building Fiction, P.82
- ^ American Library Association, 1999 Alex Awards
- ^ AWP Award Series Winners 1975-1999
- ^ a b Jesse Lee Kercheval's Biography
- ^ University of Nebraska Press, the Alice Stories
- ^ Poetry Chapbook Winners, Center for Book Arts