Gary L. McDowell
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| Gender | Male |
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| Industry | Student |
| Occupation | Ph.D. student, editor, and creative writing instructor |
| Location | Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States |
| Introduction | I live in Kalamazoo, MI with my beautiful wife, Mandy, and our amazing son, Auden. I'm a Doctoral Associate at Western Michigan University where I teach Advanced Poetry Writing. I have a BA in English from Northern Illinois University and an MFA in Poetry from Bowling Green State University. I am the author of the forthcoming collection, American Amen (Dream Horse Press, 2010), winner of the 2009 Orphic Prize, and two chapbooks, They Speak of Fruit (Copper Dillon Books, 2009) and The Blueprint (Pudding House, 2005). I'm also the co-editor of The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Prose Poetry: Contemporary Poets in Discussion and Practice (Rose Metal Press, 2010). |
| Interests | Poetry, my son, movies, novels, my wife, tennis, baseball, squash, magic and illusion, writing, procrastinating |
| Favorite Movies | Wonder Boys, Quills, Fight Club, Adaptation, Traffic, Memento, Before Night Falls, Big Bag Love, Bowling for Columbine |
| Favorite Music | Neutral Milk Hotel, Metallica, Mozart, Talib Kweli, Straylight Run, Stevie Wonder, "Nothing Else Matters, " "Wonderful Tonight, " "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, " |
| Favorite Books | Housekeeping, The Sound and the Fury, Plainsong, The Collected Poems of Tom Andrews, Order or Disorder, The Great Gatsby, The Same River Twice |
You've just inherited a manufacturing plant that specializes in plastics. What are you going to make?
Waterproof books.