Atlantic Center for the Arts
your word: 2009 Teen Creative Writing Residency

Application Deadline March 28, 2009 - Notification of acceptance status will be mailed the first week in May.

TERRANCE HAYES, poetry

Terrance Hayes is the author of Wind in a Box (Penguin 2006), Hip Logic (Penguin 2002) and Muscular Music (Carnegie Mellon University Contemporary Classics, 2005 and Tia Chucha Press, 1999). His honors include a Whiting Writers Award, the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, a National Poetry Series award, a Pushcart Prize, three Best American Poetry selections, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship.  His poems have appeared in a range of journals, including The New Yorker, Poetry, The American Poetry Review, and Ploughshares. He is a Professor of Creative Writing at Carnegie Mellon University and lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with his family.