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Michael Sarnowski

Title: Graduate Student

Program: MFA Creative Writing- Poetry
Department: English

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Email: michael.e.sarnowski@vanderbilt.edu

Degrees

  • MFA in Creative Writing- Vanderbilt University
  • B.A in English- SUNY Fredonia

Current Courses

  • ENGL 304- Graduate Poetry Workshop
  • ENGL 288-1 Contemporary Poetry
  • ENGL 370-1 MFA Thesis Research

Current Positions

  • EGSA Academic Committee Representative for MFA Creative Writing, Class of 2009.
  • Spring 2009, Instructor for ENGL 123 Beginning Poetry Workshop.
  • Editor, Write Bloody Publishing.

Previous Positions

  • Co-President of The Writer's Ring at SUNY Fredonia
  • Editor-in-Cheif of The Trident Literary Magazine

Professional Societies

  • The Association of Writers and Writing Programs
  • The Academy of American Poets

Professional Honors

  • - The Academy of American Poets- University and College Prize Winner, 2009.
  • - University Fellowship, Vanderbilt University, 2007-2009.
  • - University Tuition Scholarship, Vanderbilt University, 2007-2009.
  • - Henry Salerno Scholarship, SUNY Fredonia, 2007.
  • - Mary Louise White Creative Writing Award, SUNY Fredonia, 2007.
  • - Mary Louise White Poetry Award, SUNY Fredonia, 2007.
  • - Laura Foster Writing Award, SUNY Fredonia, 2006.

Publications

  • "This is Not Ukraine, This is my Apartment". Potomac Review. Issue 48, 2010.
  • “New Hollows”. Underground Voices. May 2010.
  • “Bloodspitters”. Gutter Eloquence, Issue #9. May 2010.
  • “48 Minutes”. Foundling Review. April 2010.
  • “A Little Bit About Myself”. Calliope Nerve. April 2010.
  • "Thawing the Bones" and "Aubade". The Adirondack Review. Summer Issue 2009.
  • "Bombs Away," "Bury Us Quick," and "Joan of Arc, 1939". The South Wing. May 2009.
  • “Dear Doctors” and "82nd and Edison". Tabula Rasa. Spring 2009.
  • "Inheritance". The Broken Plate. Ball State University. 2009.
  • "The Geography of Love in America". The Good Things About America. Write Bloody Publishing. January 2009.
  • "On Writing, On Life". The Honey Land Review. 11/08.
  • "Relocating". Versus Magazine, 4/10/08.
  • "The New Dead Language". Versus Magazine, 3/13/08.
  • "A Simple Request for When I Die". Versus Magazine, 2/14/08.
  • "Thoughts from 20,000 and Falling". Versus Magazine, 1/31/08.
  • "The Temperature of the Natural World". Versus Magazine, 1/24/08.
  • 'Kiss Americana' chapbook. Planbook Journals Press, May 2007.
  • 'We Are the New Town Criers' chapbook. Planbook Journals Press, September 2006.
  • “The Validity of Spring and All as an Argument Against The Waste Land”. Universal Journal: The Association of Young Journalists and Writers. May 2006.
  • "Losing Faith" in The Leader Newspaper, Spring 2006.
  • "Hallows" in The Leader Newspaper, Fall 2005.

Biography

Born in Rochester, New York.