Bradford Morrow is an American novelist, poet, writer, academic and editor of Conjunctions literary magazine.
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Life
Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Morrow grew up in Colorado, and, "after a decade of vagabonding from Honduras to France, Italy to England", settled in New York City, where he remains.[1] Conjunctions magazine was hatched in late 1980 as "Morrow sat in Beat poet Kenneth Rexroth's library in Santa Barbara, California. The two friends had the idea to assemble a Festschrift for James Laughlin, the beloved editor of New Directions." After going through several publishers, the magazine was picked up by Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York who remains the journal's publisher.[2] Morrow was later Rexroth's literary executor. He has taught at Princeton, Brown, and Columbia Universities, as well as the Naropa Institute. Since 1990 he has been a professor of literature and Bard Center Fellow at Bard College. The Review of Contemporary Fiction published a "Bradford Morrow issue" in 2000.
Awards and honors
- Guggenheim Fellowship (2007)
- PEN/Nora Magid Award for Editing (2007)
- O. Henry Prize (2003)
- Academy Award in Literature, American Academy of Arts and Letters (1998)
- Member, board of trustees, PEN American Center (1998–2002) and chair of the PEN Forums Committee
Works
Novels
- Come Sunday (1988; later republished)
- A Bestiary (1991)
- The Almanac Branch (finalist for the 1992 PEN/Faulkner Award; 1991)
- Trinity Fields (finalist for the 1995 Los Angeles Times Book Award; first volume of his "New Mexico Trilogy")
- Giovanni's Gift (1997)
- Ariel’s Crossing (second volume of his "New Mexico Trilogy"; 2002)
Books of poems
- After a Charme, (New York: Grenfell Press, 1984)
- The Preferences, (New York: Grenfell Press, 1983)
- Danae's Progress, (San Francisco: Cadmus Editions/Arion Press, 1982)
- Posthumes, (Santa Barbara: Cadmus Editions, 1982)
- Passing From the Provinces, (Santa Barbara: Cadmus Editions, 1981)
Notes
- ^ [1] Web page titled "A Web DelSol Featured Writer" at the Web DelSol Web site, accessed December 14, 2006
- ^ [2] Larimer, Kevin, "The Functions of Conjunctions" article in Poets & Writers Web site, "News & Trends" section, undated but around October 2001, according to the article, accessed December 14, 2006
