Gregory Fraser

Gregory Fraser is an American poet, editor, and professor. He is the author of three poetry collections, Strange Pietà, Answering the Ruins, and Designed for Flight, as well as the co-author, with poet Chad Davidson, of two college textbooks, Writing Poetry and Analyze Anything. Fraser grew up in Philadelphia and its suburbs, and earned a B.A. at Ursinus College, an M.F.A. at Columbia University, and a Ph.D. at the University of Houston. His poetry has appeared in such journals as The New Yorker,[1] The Paris Review, The Southern Review, The Gettysburg Review, and Ploughshares. The recipient of grants from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, Fraser teaches at the University of West Georgia, located an hour west of Atlanta, and serves as features editor of the Birmingham Poetry Review. (Curriculum Vitae )

• 2017 Meringoff Prize in Poetry (Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers)
• 2016 James Dickey Poetry Prize (Five Points literary magazine)
• 2015 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
• 2010 Georgia Author of the Year in Poetry
• 2009 Sewanee Writers’ Conference Fellowship
• 2005 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
• Texas Teachers of Creative Writing Award
• Walt McDonald First Book Award
• Associated Writing Programs Award
• Houston Arts Council Literary Award

• Review of Designed for Flight by Shawn Delgado
• Review of Designed for Flight by Lauren Watel
• “Her Mistake,” Verse Daily/Southeast Review
• “At the Degas Exhibit,” Poetry Daily/Five Points
• “The Great Northeast,” The Missouri Review
• “End of Days,” Verse Daily/The Southern Review
• “Ficus,” Verse Daily/Birmingham Poetry Review
• “Epithalamium,” Verse Daily/New South
• Review of Answering the Ruins
• A Different Bother (chapbook), Beard of Bees Press
• Interview with Gregory Fraser
• Review of Strange Pietà
• Interview with Gregory Fraser