Gregory Donovan

Gregory Donovan is the author of the poetry collections TORN FROM THE SUN from 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 variety of print and online journals nationwide. Born in Mammoth Spring, Arkansas and raised by adoptive parents in Missouri, he grew up in St. Louis and 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 creative writing program at Virginia Commonwealth University, a program he helped establish, and he is Senior Editor of the well-known online journal BLACKBIRD (blackbird.vcu.edu). With the writer/director Michele Poulos, he produced A LATE STYLE OF FIRE, a documentary film about the life and work of his friend, the poet Larry Levis, featuring music composed by Iron & Wine.