Poets Across the Generations: Alison Deming & Hugh Steinberg

Alison Hawthorne Deming wrote Science And Other Poems (LSU, 1994), selected by Gerald Stern for the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets; The Monarchs: A poem Sequence (LSU, 1997) and edited Poetry Of The American West (Columbia University Press, 1996).

Her book, The Edges of the Civilized World, will be published this fall by Picador. Her awards include an MFA from Vermont College, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, two NEA fellowships, awards from the Poetry Society of America, and a Pushcart Prize. Her writing has appeared in the Georgia Review, the Sonora Review, Denver Quarterly, and more. In 1997 she was Distinguished Visiting Writer at the University of Hawaii in Manoa. Since 1990 she has been Director of the University of Arizona Poetry Center, and teaches in the creative writing program.

Hugh Steinberg’s poetry has appeared in Grand Street, Puerto Del Sol, Antioch Review, Fish Stories, Epoch, and elsewhere. Look for forthcoming work in Prairie Schooner and American Poetry Review. His chapbook In the Attic of the House of the Dead is forthcoming from Chax Press. Hugh attended Johns Hopkins University , where he received a BA in Political Science in 1990. He the attended the university of Arizona, where he received an MFA 1990, while volunteering at the Tucson Poetry Festival as treasurer and co-director. Currently he is attending Stanford University as a Wallace Stegner Fellow. He volunteers at Small Press Traffic and is also co-editor (with Jennifer Harris) of the community-based literary magazine, JackLeg.