Andrew Hudgins Explained

Andrew Hudgins (born 22 April 1951 Killeen, Texas) is an American poet.

Biography

Hudgins was raised in Alabama. He earned a B.A. at Huntingdon College, an M.A. at the University of Alabama, and an M.F.A. at the University of Iowa. He is the author of numerous collections of poetry and essays, many of which have received high critical praise, such as The Never-Ending: New Poems (1991), which was a finalist for the National Book Awards; After the Lost War: A Narrative (1988), which received the Poets' Prize; and Saints and Strangers (1985), which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Hudgins is an elected member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers and a frequent Sewanee Writers' Conference faculty member. He is currently Humanities Distinguished Professor of English at Ohio State University. He previously taught at Baylor University and the University of Cincinnati. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship^[1] and two NEA fellowships.^[2] Hudgins lives in Upper Arlington, Ohio, with his wife, the writer Erin McGraw.^{[3] [4] [5]}

Bibliography

Poetry

Collections

• Book:
• Book: After the Lost War: A Narrative. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 1988. 978-0-395-45713-9 .
• Book: The Never-Ending. registration. Houghton Mifflin. 1991. 978-0-395-58570-2 .
• Book: The Glass Hammer: A Southern Childhood. Houghton Mifflin. 1994. 978-0-395-70011-2 .
• Book: Babylon in a Jar. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 1998. 978-0-618-12697-2 .
• Book: Ecstatic in the Poison. registration. Overlook Press. 2003. 978-1-58567-429-9 .
• Book: Shut Up, You're Fine!: Poems for Very, Very Bad Children. Overlook Press. 2009. 978-1-59020-103-9 .
• Book: American Rendering: New and Selected Poems. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2010. 978-0-547-48731-1.
• Book: A Clown at Midnight. Mariner Books. 2013. 978-0-544-10880-6.

List of poems

width=25%	Title	Year	First published	Reprinted/collected
Dragonfly	1997

Nonfiction

• Book:
• Book: Diary of a Poem. University of Michigan Press. 2011. 978-0-472-07154-8 .
  • • Reprinted in Book: Henderson . Bill . The Pushcart Prize XXXVII : best of the small presses 2013 . Pushcart Press . 2013 . 452–468 .
• Book: The Joker: A Memoir. Simon & Schuster. 2013. 978-1-476-71271-0. registration.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Three Ohio State Professors Win Guggenheim Fellowship . 2024-04-25 . Three Ohio State Professors Win Guggenheim Fellowship . en-us.
2. Web site: NEA Literature Fellowships: 40 Years of Supporting American Writers . 2024-04-25 . www.arts.gov . en.
3. Web site: About Andrew Hudgins | Academy of American Poets. Academy of American. Poets. poets.org. Oct 9, 2020.
4. Web site: Sewanee Writers' Conference • Faculty • The University of the South. sewaneewriters.org. Oct 9, 2020.
5. Web site: Hudgins | English . 2012-08-18 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130613041202/http://english.osu.edu/people/hudgins . 2013-06-13 .