Title: Graduate Student

Program: MFA Creative Writing- Poetry
Department: English

Office: 
Email: michael.e.sarnowski@vanderbilt.edu

Degrees

• B.A in English- SUNY Fredonia

Current Courses

• ENGL 304- Graduate Poetry Workshop
• ENGL 305- Graduate Non-Fiction Workshop
• ENGL 272- Post-war American Poetry

Current Positions

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

Previous Positions

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

Professional Honors

• - 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

• "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.
• "Thawing the Bones". Versus Magazine, 1/17/08.
• 'Kiss Americana' chapbook. Planbook Journals Press, May 2007.
• 'We Are the New Town Criers' chapbook. Planbook Journals Press, September 2006.
• "Losing Faith" in The Leader Newspaper, Spring 2006.
• "Hallows" in The Leader Newspaper, Fall 2005.

Biography

Born in Rochester, New York.