Edward Byrne is a graduate of Brooklyn
College, City University of New York (B.A., M.F.A.), and the
University of Utah (Ph.D.). He has won a number of awards
and fellowships, including an Academy of American Poets Award,
the Donald G. Whiteside Award for Poetry, and a Utah Arts Council
Award for Poetry.
His
first full-length collection of poetry, Along the Dark Shore
(BOA Editions), was a finalist for the Elliston Book Award.
A chapbook-length collection of poems contained in The Return
to Black and White (Tidy-Up Press) was selected by Library
Journal as among "The Best of the Small Press Publications."
Work in his third book of poems, Words Spoken, Words Unspoken
(Chimney Hill Press), was awarded the Cape Rock
Prize for Poetry in 1995. His fourth book of poems, East
of Omaha, was nominated for a Midland Authors Award in
1999. A fifth collection of poems, Tidal Air,
appears from Pecan Grove Press in 2002. His poems also
have appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies.
In addition, he has written many film essays and movie reviews.
He
was born in New York City and currently resides with his wife
and son in Valparaiso, Indiana. He is a professor of American
literature and creative writing in the English Department at
Valparaiso University, where he serves as the editor of Valparaiso
Poetry Review.
BOA
books by Edward Byrne:
Along the Dark Shore
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