Greg Pape is the author of Four Swans, Animal Time, American Flamingo (Crab Orchard Open Competition Award), Sunflower Facing the Sun (Edwin Ford Piper Prize, now called the Iowa Prize), Storm Pattern, Black Branches, Border Crossings (Pitt Poetry Series), and other books. His work has received the Discovery/The Nation Award, two National Endowment for the Arts Individual Fellowships, the Richard Hugo Memorial Poetry Award, the Pushcart Prize, and other awards. His poems have appeared in The Atlantic, Colorado Review, Cutbank, Field, The Florida Review, Iowa Review, Literary Accents, The Louisville Review, Miramar, The New Yorker, Poetry, Kyoto Journal, and others. He is Professor Emeritus at the University of Montana and former Montana Poet Laureate. He currently serves on the faculty in Spalding University's Naslund-Mann School of Writing. He has an MFA degree from the University of Arizona and an M.A. from California State University, Fresno. Born in California, Greg Pape has lived and worked in many places around the country. He has taught literature and writing at Hollins University, The University of Missouri, The University of Alabama, where he served as The Coal Royalty Chair in poetry, The University of Louisville, where he served as Bingham Poet-in-Residence, Northern Arizona University, Florida International University, and other colleges and universities. He has been awarded fellowships at The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the Centrum Foundation at Fort Worden State Park in Washington, and Breadloaf, where was a Robert Frost Fellow. He has read his work at venues across the country and in Canada, Mexico, Italy, and Japan. His poetry reflects a deep appreciation for diverse landscapes and people, a love of animals, and an attentiveness to the natural world, which of course includes the man-made world. He divides his time between Frankfort, Kentucky and the Bitterroot Valley in Montana. He is currently at work on a new book of poems and a memoir.
