{"id":684,"date":"2019-07-08T16:16:10","date_gmt":"2019-07-08T16:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/160-english\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=684"},"modified":"2025-11-04T16:17:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T16:17:18","slug":"michael-prior","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/english-and-creative-writing\/facultystaff\/michael-prior\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Prior"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p>Michael Prior is the author of two books of poems:\u00a0<i>Burning Province<\/i>\u00a0(McClelland &amp; Stewart\/Penguin Random House, 2020), which won the Canada-Japan Literary Award and the BC &amp; Yukon Book Prizes\u2019 Poetry Prize, and\u00a0<i>Model Disciple\u00a0<\/i>(V\u00e9hicule Press, 2016). He is the recent recipient of fellowships from the New York Public Library\u2019s Cullman Center, the Jerome Foundation, and the Amy Clampitt Residency. His poems have appeared in<i>\u00a0The New Republic<\/i>,\u00a0<i>Poetry<\/i>,\u00a0<i>The Kenyon Review<\/i>,\u00a0<i>Sewanee Review<\/i>,\u00a0<i>Poetry Daily,<\/i>\u00a0and the Academy of American Poets\u2019\u00a0<i>Poem-A-Day<\/i> series, among other magazines and anthologies. Michael is currently at work on a third collection of poems and a book of essays.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>Areas of Study<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0 \u00a0 Poetry<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0 \u00a0 Politics of poetic form<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0 \u00a0 Asian American poetries<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0 \u00a0 Creative Nonfiction<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0 \u00a0 Intergenerational memory<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0 \u00a0 Literary citizenship<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>Fall 2025 Courses<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0 \u00a0 ENGL 113-01 Introduction to Asian American Literature<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0 \u00a0 ENGL 406-01 Projects in Creative Writing<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>Spring 2026 Courses<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0ENGL 282-01: The Crafts of Writing: Creative Nonfiction: The Art of the Attempt: The Personal Essay<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0ENGL 294-02: Storied Lives: Japanese-American Experiences and Literature from Incarceration\/Redress to Present Day<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>Education<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0 \u00a0 B.A. in English Literature from the University of British Columbia<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0 \u00a0 M.A. in English Literature from the University of Toronto<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0 \u00a0 M.F.A. in Poetry from Cornell University.<\/div>","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":2481,"template":"","class_list":["post-684","profile","type-profile","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/english-and-creative-writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/english-and-creative-writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/english-and-creative-writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/english-and-creative-writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"version-history":[{"count":45,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/english-and-creative-writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2933,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/english-and-creative-writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/684\/revisions\/2933"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/english-and-creative-writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/english-and-creative-writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}