Johnson, Peter 1951-

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JOHNSON, Peter 1951-

PERSONAL:

Born 1951, in Buffalo, NY; married; wife's name Genevieve; children: Kurt. Education: State University of New York—Buffalo, B.A., 1976; University of New Hampshire, M.A., 1978, Ph.D., 1983.

ADDRESSES:

Office—Department of English, Providence College, 549 River Ave., Providence, RI 02918-0001. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER:

Providence College, Providence, RI, professor of English.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Winner of fiction chapbook contest, Raincrow Press, 1997, for I'm a Man; fellow, National Endowment for the Arts, 1999; James Laughlin Award, Academy of American Poets, 2001, for Miracles and Mortifications.

WRITINGS:

Pretty Happy! (prose poetry), White Pine Press (Buffalo, NY), 1997.

Love Poems for the Millennium (poetry chapbook), Quale Press (Haydenville, MA), 1998.

I'm a Man (short stories), Raincrow Press (Rossford, OH), 1998.

(Editor) Best of the Prose Poem: An International Journal, White Pine Press (Buffalo, NY), 2000.

Miracles and Mortifications: Prose Poems, White Pine Press (Buffalo, NY), 2001.

Contributor of short stories, articles, and reviews to periodicals, including Mississippi Review, Five Fingers Review, Crossroads, Chiron Review, Review: Magazine of Southern New England, Providence Journal, Wisconsin English Journal, Beloit Fiction Journal, Treasure House, and Controlled Burn. Founder and editor, Prose Poem: An International Journal, 1992-2001; contributing editor, American Poetry Review, Web del Sol, and Slope.