Gary Whitehead

Gary Joseph Whitehead (born in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, on March 23, 1965) is an American poet, painter, and cruciverbalist. He is the author of The Velocity of Dust (Salmon/Dufour Editions), After the Drowning (Finishing Line Press), A Cool, Dry Place (White Eagle Coffee Store Press), and Walking Back to Providence (Sow's Ear Press). His awards include a New York Foundation for the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship in Poetry, two Galway Kinnell Poetry Prizes, a Pearl Hogrefe Fellowship at Iowa State University, and a Princeton University Distinguished Secondary School Teaching Award in 2003.^[1] He has held writing residencies at Blue Mountain Center, Mesa Refuge, and the Heinrich Böll cottage in Ireland. Whitehead was the founding editor of the now-defunct Defined Providence Press. In 2004, he was the recipient of the Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Residency Award, and spent April 2005 though October 2005 in a secluded cabin in the woods of southwestern Oregon. Some of his work done in residence at the Heinrich Böll cottage was published in the Christian Science Monitor.^[2] Whitehead's crossword puzzles have been published in several national newspapers and magazines, including The New York Sun, USA Today, the Los Angeles Times and, most notably, The New York Times (on Monday, April 10, 2006). He also has had his puzzles published in Tenafly High School's Echo publication. Since 1997, he has taught English at Tenafly High School in Tenafly, New Jersey, where he also advises the school's annually published literary magazine, Omega. In addition, Whitehead teaches a course in Contemporary American Poetry for Virtual High School, Inc.

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