Peter Meinke has published 13 books of
poetry, six in the prestigious Pitt Poetry Series, including Zinc
Fingers (2001), Scars (1996), and Liquid Paper
(1991). His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The
New Republic, Poetry, and elsewhere. His collection of stories,
The Piano Tuner, received the 1986 Flannery O’Connor
Award, and Zinc Fingers the 2001 SEBA Award for Poetry (Southeast
Booksellers Association). Most recently (2004), a collection of poems
called Maples and Oranges has been translated and published
in St. Petersburg, Russia. Meinke’s poems have won many awards,
including the Olivet and Paumanok Awards, and The Emily Dickinson, Gustav
Davidson and Lucille Medwick prizes from the Poetry Society of America,
as well as two NBA Fellowships in Poetry. He taught at Eckerd College
for 27 years where he was director of the Writing Workshop and has been
writer-in-residence at numerous colleges and universities, including
the University of Hawaii, Davidson College, Hamilton College, the University
of South Florida, Converse College, and the University of North Carolina
at Greensboro. Currently Meinke holds the Darden Chair in Creative Writing
at Old Dominion University.
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