| Jerry McGuire is Director of the Creative Writing Concentration at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He was born in Stuyvesant Falls, New York in 1947. After a tour of duty in the Air Force and working in factories for several years, he received a B.A. in English and Linguistics from Wesleyan University and a Ph.D. in literature from SUNY at Buffalo. He has taught in a number of universities, including, as a Senior Fulbright Lecturer in American Literature and Poetics, Alexandru Ion Cuza University in Iasi, Romania. He has won literary prizes and awards from journals such as The Nebraska Review and Louisiana Literature and in contests such as the Primavera Competition, The Allen Ginsberg Competition, The Sow’s Ear Review Poetry Contest, and the Publishing Online Contest. Much of his work is poetry and experimental fiction done in collaboration with musicians, dancers, and visual artists and designed for specific performance environments. His scholarly work includes publications on Shakespeare, poetry and poetics, pedagogy, literary theory, postcolonial studies, and film theory, and he is Advisory Editor of College Literature. |
