SUMMER WRITER-IN-RESIDENCE PROGRAM
| We are pleased announce our first Summer Writer-In-Residence program, and especially pleased that poet Phillip Sterling is our first Writer-In-Residence. Phillip will be spending a lot of time in our small town this summer, leading writing events for kids in conjunction with the West Shore Art League, West Shore Community College, and Sand Castles Children's Museum, leading poetry workshops for adults, giving readings, and other activities. |
Meet Phillip Sterling
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Phillip Sterling’s poems, stories, and essays have appeared in many distinguished periodicals, both here and abroad, including The Paris Review, Western Humanities Review, Passages North, American Literary Review, and The Writer’s Chronicle, as well as the online journals The Pedestal Magazine and Cortland Review, to name a few. His most recent collection, Abeyance, was winner of the Frank Cat Press Chapbook Award in 2007. He is also the author of two other chapbook-length series of poems, Quatrains (Pudding House 2006) and Significant Others (Main Street Rag 2005), as well as the full-length Mutual Shores (New Issues 2000), and editor of Imported Breads: Literature of Cultural Exchange, an anthology of creative writing by former Fulbrighters (Mammoth 2003). Among Sterling’s awards are an NEA Fellowship in Poetry, a Syndicated Fiction Award, two Senior Fulbright Lectureships (Belgium and Poland), several Pushcart Prize nominations (for poetry and essays) and a Distinguished Faculty Award from the Michigan Association of Governing Boards. His story “Home Invasion” won first place in the adult fiction division of the 2009 Grand Rapids Festival of the Arts Literary Awards; his essay “The Relish of Summer” won first place for nonfiction in 2008. He is the founding coordinator of the Literature In Person (LIP) Reading Series at Ferris State University, where he has taught for over twenty years.
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