Gary Fincke

Gary Fincke is the Charles Degenstein Professor of Creative Writing and the Writers' Institute director at Susquehanna University. He has published eighteen books of poetry, short fiction, and creative nonfiction, including Blood Ties, in 2001. His collection Writing Letters for the Blind won the 2002 Ohio State University Press book prize for poetry. In 2003, Dr. Fincke won the Flannery O'Connor Prize for Fiction for a new manuscript, entitled Sorry I Worried You. He has recently had his book manuscript The History of Permanence selected for the Stephen F. Austin University Press Poetry Prize, and that volume will be published in late 2011. REVIVING THE DEAD is his newest book of poetry published by Time Being Books.