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.