John Hoppenthaler

John Hoppenthaler is a poet, prose writer, and editor. He is currently an Assistant Professor of English/Creative Writing at East Carolina University, where he is on the English Department Library Committee. His primary areas of research and teaching include creative writing, contemporary and modern poetry, and American Literatures. He also worked as the English Department Coordinator and Instructor of English at West Virginia University at Parkersburg, and served as a Personal Assistant to Novel and Pulitzer Prize winning author, Toni Morrison for 9 years. In 2008 Hoppenthaler received the Residency Fellowship at Weymouth Center for the Arts and Humanities. His poems, prose, and InterViews have been published in a variety of journals including Cortland Review, Poezia, The Dirty Napkin, The Florida Review, and Tar River Poetry. He currently lives in Washington, NC.

Education

Hoppenthaler received his A.A. In Humanities and Creative Writing from Rockland Community College, his B.S. In English from State University of New York at Brockport, and his M.F.A. From Virginia Commonwealth University.

Recent Prose Publications

• Essay/Review of Nickole Brown's Sister. Cortland Review (2009).

• Essay. "Lost in the Suburbs with John Updike" The Common Reader Newsletter of the East Carolina University Department Of English (2009).

• Interview. "Clothing in Soul: An interview with Michael Waters." Review Revue (2008).

Books

• Anticipate the Coming RESERVOIR. A book poetry. Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2008.

• Lives of Water. A book of poetry. Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2003. Reprint in 2006.

• So Let It Be Like Rain: On the Poetry of Jean Valentine (working title). A collection of essays and interviews. Co-edited with Kazim Ali. Under Construction.

Recent Poetry Publications

• "December Settles in Over Haverstraw Bay." The Dirty Napkin 2008. Featured on Verse Daily, Feb. 2008.

• "Somewhere Over." The Florida Review 2008.

• "Tree House." Alehouse 2008.

• "Odd Man Out." Cave Wall 2008.

Recent Poetry Readings

• Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA, 2009.

• Penn State Fayette, Uniontown, PA, 2009.

• West Virginia Book Festival, WV, 2008.

• Bridgewater College, Bridgewater, VA, 2008.

Selected Honors

• Writer's Aid Grant from the MacDowell Colony. Petersborough, NH. October, 2006.

• Residency Fellowship at the MacDowell Colony. Petersborough, NH. June 2006.

• Featured writer on the West Virgina Folklife Center Literarcy Map of West Virginia. 2004.

• Nomiated for a Pushcart Prize each year, 1999 – 2008.

References

• East Carolina University. 27 Feb 2009 1.

• Hoppenthaler, John. Vita. Ts: 4 May 09.

• Ploughshares, the literary journal. 23 Feb 2009. 29 Apr. 2009 2.