G.C. Waldrep was born in the small town of South Boston, Va., in 1968. He holds degrees in American history from Harvard and Duke and a MFA in poetry from the University of Iowa. His first book of poems, Goldbeater's Skin, won the 2003 Colorado Prize for Poetry as well as a Greenwall Award from The Academy of American Poets. His poems have appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, Gettysburg Review, New England Review, Colorado Review, American Letters & Commentary, among many journals. He has received awards from the Poetry Society of America, the North Carolina Arts Council, the Campbell Corner Foundation, and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. He is also the author of a nonfiction book, Southern Workers and the Search for Community (University of Illinois Press, 2000), which won the 2001 Illinois Prize for history.
He teaches at Bucknell University in Pennsylvania, where he directs the Bucknell Seminar for Younger Poets.
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