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Alexander Kuo (born 1941 (?) in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American teacher, poet, fiction writer, and essayist1 of Chinese-American ancestry. He received his B.A. from Knox College in 19612 where he studied with Sam Moon & Gogisi and M.F.A. from the University of Iowa where he studied with Donald Justice & Philip Roth. He is professor of English at Washington State University, which lists him as an example of their "world class faculty."3 and is the former chair of the Department of Comparative American Cultures4 (now called Comparative Ethnic Studies).5 In 2001, WSU named him their first Writer-in-Residence.6
He has won multiple National Endowment for the Arts grants, and has held numerous teaching fellowships in China, including a 1989 fellowship at Beijing University, Senior Fulbright Scholar at Changchun University in 1991-92, and a Lingnan Fellow in Hong Kong in 1997-98. He has held positions at numerous universities in China including Peking University, Beijing Forestry University, Jilin University, and Hong Kong Baptist University. In 2002-03 he held the Writer-in-Residence position with Mercy Corps. He is Washington State University's first Writer-in-Residence. He received a Rockefeller Foundation grant for a Bellagio residency in 2003-4. Lipstick and Other Stories won the American Book Award of the Before Columbus Foundation in 2002.7
His writing makes demands on the reader in a way comparable to Franz Kafka or Jorge Luis Borges.8
He is a mentor to notable Native American writer Sherman Alexie.9
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Works
Poetry
- The Window Tree (1974)
- New Letters from Hiroshima, and Other Poems (1974)
- Changing the River (1986)
- This Fierce Geography (1998)
Fiction
- Chinese Opera (novel, 1998)
- Lipstick and Other Stories (short stories, 2001)
- Panda Diaries (novel, 2006)
Notes
- ^ Alex Kuo, "Damming the American West" (2003) http://www.bluefish.org/damming.htm
- ^ Poet Alex Kuo Judges Writing Awards http://www.knox.edu/x4084.xml
- ^ Future Students: Why WSU? http://www.wsu.edu/future-students/why-wsu/wc_kuo.htm
- ^ Natascha Karlova, "On Lipstick, Rodeo Queens, Creative Compatibility, and Making a Difference," Ask. Magazine WSU College of Liberal Arts (December 2002), p.15.
- ^ CAE Homepage http://libarts.wsu.edu/ces/
- ^ WSU Press Release http://www.wsu.edu/NIS/releases4/skh109.htm (June 2001)
- ^ ABE List of Winners http://www.bookweb.org/news/awards/1293.html
- ^ Robert H. Abel, "Review of 'Lipstick and Other Stories'," Asian Review of Books (March 2001).
- ^ WSU Press Release http://www.wsu.edu/NIS/releases2/ct102.htm (January 1999)
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