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I am a poet impersonating a novelist, editor and workshop coordinator. Most recent book: Laelia (novel, Simon & Schuster/Atria 2004).

Background Information

Poetry influences: Amiri Baraka, Sonia Sanchez, TS Eliot, WB Yeats, Thomas Hardy, Ahmos Zu Bolton, Lucille Clifton, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sterling Brown, Haki Madhubuti, Shirley Leflore, Lucie Brock Broido, June Jordan, Yusuf Komunyaaka, Mervyn Taylor, Dawad Philip, Margaret Atwood, Raymond Patterson, Walt Whitma, many other warriors. Fiction influences: Jean Toomer, Toni Morrison, Toni Cade Bambara, Chekov, Anne Beattie, John Edgar Wideman, Milan Kundera, Wole Soyinka. Essay influences: James Baldwin, Joan Didion, many others.

Birth Place

Webster Groves, MO

Accomplishments

National Endowment of the Arts - Creative Writing Fellowship 1992; Missouri Arts Council grants 1980, 1997, 2000.

Additional Information

Other books in print: A Move Further South (poems). Upcoming: Concerning Violence (new & selected poems); Hiatus (memoir); Chloe's Grief (novel)

Contact Information

Onegin Publishing
3201 Washington Ave.
St. Louis MO 63103 US

Contact Author: Ruth-Miriam Garnett