Gregory Donovan has authored the poetry collections TORN FROM THE SUN, newly published by Red Hen Press, and CALLING HIS CHILDREN HOME, winner of the Devins Award from the University of Missouri Press, as well as poetry, essays, and fiction published in a great variety of print and online journals. Born in Mammoth Spring, Arkansas and raised by adoptive parents in St. Louis, Missouri, he later attended the University of Missouri, Columbia. After college, he lived and worked in North Carolina for some years before going on to earn an M.A. at the University of Utah and a Ph.D. from Binghamton University where his dissertation director was the novelist John Gardner. Donovan now teaches in the graduate creative writing program at Virginia Commonwealth University, a program which he helped establish, and he is Senior Editor of the well-known online journal BLACKBIRD (http://www.blackbird.vcu.edu). With the writer/director Michele Poulos, he also has produced A LATE STYLE OF FIRE, a documentary about the life and work of the poet Larry Levis featuring music composed by Iron & Wine, due out in 2015.
