Nelson, Eric

ERIC NELSON’s poems have appeared in Poetry, The Southern Review, Yankee, The Missouri Review, and many other journals. Book publications include a chapbook and three full-length collections, including The Interpretation of Waking Life (University of Arkansas Press, 1991) and Terrestrials (Texas Review Press, 2004), which won the 2003 X.J. Kennedy Poetry Prize selected by Maxine Kumin. He is professor of Writing and Linguistics at Georgia Southern University, where he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in creative writing.