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Cecil Giscombe
Professor of English

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Contact:
6 Burrowes Building
University Park, PA 16802
Office Phone: 814-863-9584
giscombe@psu.edu

Office Hours:
By Appointment

Educational History:
M.F.A. Cornell University
B.A. SUNY Albany

Research Interests:
Creative Writing (poetry, non-fiction prose)

Awards:
Writing fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fund for Poetry, the Illinois Arts Council, etc.
Fulbright Research Award (to Canada) from the Council for the International Exchange of Scholars

Major Publications:
Into & Out of Dislocation (North Point/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1999)
Two Sections from Practical Geography (Draeresis Press)
Giscome Road (Dalkey Archive Press, 1998)
Here (Dalkey Archive Press, 1994)
Postcards (Ithaca House, 1977)

National Professional Service:
Contributing Editor, Cross-Cultural Poetics
Editor, American Book Review