Derick Burleson

Derick Burleson is the author of Never Night (Marick Press 2008). His first collection of poems, Ejo: Poems, Rwanda 1991-94, won the 2000 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry. He was also the recipient of a 1999 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry.^[1] His poems have appeared in The Georgia Review, The Kenyon Review, The Paris Review, Poetry, and many other journals.¹ He lived and taught English in Rwanda in the two years leading up to the genocide which took place in 1994.^[2] A recipient of a 1999 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, Burleson teaches creative writing and literature at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and lives with his daughter in Two Rivers, Alaska.^[3]

References

1. Poetry Daily Web Site. http://poems.com/feature.php?date=14036.2008. Retrieved April 13, 2009.
2. University of Wisconsin Press Web Site. http://www.wisc.edu/wisconsinpress/books/3363.htm.2004. Retrieved April 13, 2009.
3. University of Alaska Anchorage Web Site. http://www.uaa.alaska.edu/cwla/faculty/associatefaculty/derickburleson.cfm.2008. Retrieved April 13, 2009.