Poets

Alexander Long was born and raised in Sharon Hill,Pennsylvania. He's worked as a fry cook, obituary writer, and musician. Vigil, his first book of poems, was released in 2006 from the New Issues Press Poetry Series. His second book—Noise: A Fragmented Memoir/Prose Poems—will be released in late 2007 (RockWay Press). Co-editor (with Christopher Buckley) of A Condition of the Spirit: the Life & Work of Larry Levis (Eastern Washington UP, 2004), Long is also the author of a chapbook, Six Prose Poems (Brandenburg Press, 2004). His work has appeared in American Writers (Charles Scribner's Sons), Blackbird, Box Car Poetry Review, The Cream City Review, 5 A. M., Quarter After Eight, Quarterly West, The Prose Poem: an International Journal, Rivendell, Third Coast, Three Candles Journal, Unsplendid, Zone 3, and elsewhere. He has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize five times, was awarded an Academy of American Poets Prize three times (in conjunction with the University of Delaware), has received a residency from the Vermont Studio Center, and has received a fellowship from the Prague Summer Seminars. In 2007, he was awarded an Individual Artist's Fellowship in Creative Non-Fiction from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. He has taught at Western Michigan University, Johns Hopkins University, the University of Delaware, West Chester University, and (currently) Philadelphia University. He writes, plays, and travels with the band Redhead Betty Takeout.