Two university professors in the Inland Northwest are among three Idaho writers who received literature fellowships from the Idaho Commission on the Arts.
The Idaho Commission on the Arts awarded the $5,000 fellowships to Georgia Pearle Foster, Cameron McGill and Alexandra Teague. The awards, given every two years, recognize outstanding writers whose work exhibits the highest artistic merit during peer review.
Applicants were reviewed anonymously in a highly competitive process by out-of-state panelists and judged on existing work and professional history.
McGill, an associate professor at Washington State University, is a poet, educator and songwriter originally from Champaign, Illinois. He is the author of “In the Night Field” and “Meridians,” with poems forthcoming in Blackbird, Denver Quarterly, Hayden’s Ferry Review, The Kenyon Review, Poetry Ireland Review and Willow Springs. McGill co-directs the Visiting Writers Series at WSU and a poetry study abroad program to Ireland.
Teague, a professor of creative writing and chair of English at University of Idaho, is the author of the poetry collection “[ominous music intensifying]” and the memoir “Spinning Tea Cups,” which was a runner-up for Idaho Book of the Year. She previously authored three books of poetry and a novel, and co-edited “Bullets into Bells.”
Foster, who lives and teaches in southeastern Idaho, is an alumna of Smith College with an MFA from Lesley University and a PhD from the University of Houston. Her poems have appeared in Ninth Letter, Kenyon Review Online and WSQ. She released her first poetry collection, “Refinery,” in 2022 and is working on a second collection and a memoir.
The Idaho Commission on the Arts is the official state agency dedicated to supporting and advancing the arts in Idaho through programs, partnerships and investments that promote excellence, lifelong arts learning, access to the arts and community vitality.
For more information, visit www.arts.idaho.gov.
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