{"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":"2026-07-27T14:54:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T14:54:03","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<h5><strong>Areas of Study<\/strong><\/h5>\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<h5><\/h5>\n<h5>Fall 2026 Courses<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>ENGL 150-01 FYC Introduction to Creative Writing<br \/>\nENGL 350-01 20th Century Poetry<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>Education<\/strong><\/h5>\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":47,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/english-and-creative-writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3431,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/english-and-creative-writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/684\/revisions\/3431"}],"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}]}}