Richard Jackson, UC Foundation Professor of English at UTC, has won a
Guggenheim Fellowship for his writing and translating from the John Simon
Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. The Guggenheim Fellowship is one of the
couple
of highest and most prestigious awards a writer can receive. The substantial
stipend is intended to help him support various creative projects and to
provide time and travel assistance.

The award is the latest in a series of awards and fellowships recognizing
Jackson’s achievements. In May of 2000 he was awarded the Order of Freedom
medal by the President of Slovenia for his literary and humanitarian work in
the Balkans. The medal is the highest award given to civilians in that
country.

He has also been a Fulbright Exchange poet to former Yugoslavia, and is a
past
winner of NEA and NEH Fellowships. He has won four prestigious Pushcart
Prizes, a Prairie Schooner Magazine Reader’s Choice Award, a Crazy Horse
Magazine Award, Cleveland State Poetry prize, Alabama Poetry Prize, the Agee
Award, and a Choice Selection. In addition, his poems have been featured on
the internet’s Poetry Daily and Verse Daily.

Jackson is the author of 5 award winning books of poems including the 2000
Juniper prize winning book, Heartwall, three chapbooks of translations, two
award winning books of criticism and two anthologies. His poems have been
translated into over a dozen languages and a Selected Poems appeared in
Slovenia last year. His several dozen essays appear in most of the major
journals and anthologies. He is the editor of Poetry Miscellany, Mala Revija
and an eastern European book series. His New and Selected Poems is due out
next Spring.

Dr. Jackson has lectured and read his work at dozens American universities
and
in Europe. This past summer he has lectured and read at the University of
Iowa, the American Library Association meeting, Vermont College, the
University Of Ljubljana, and the Prague Workshops, and will lecture at Salem
College in Winston-Salem next month. He also lectured and chaired a panel at
the International P.E.N. conference in Slovenia in May.

At UTC he teaches creative writing and the Freshman Honors Seminar and is a
member of the Council of Scholars. He directs the internationally renowned
Meacham Writers Workshops each Fall and Spring. He also directs the eastern
European Exchange through which he takes creative writing students to Europe
each May. He has won several teaching awards at UTC and at Vermont College’s
writers conferences and programs.


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