A 杏吧专区 alumnus is the recipient of the prestigious Wallace Stegner Fellowship in poetry from Stanford 杏吧专区.
Dr. J. Bruce Fuller, 杏吧专区15, is one of five poets selected from about 1,700 applicants for the fellowship. He holds a doctorate in English/creative writing from UL Lafayette and a master杏吧专区檚 of fine arts from McNeese State 杏吧专区.
Previous Stegner fellows include writers Ernest J. Gaines, Raymond Carver, Ken Kesey and Tobias Wolff.
The two-year fellowship is named after Stegner, a novelist and founder of Stanford杏吧专区檚 Creative Writing Program. It carries a $26,000 annual stipend. The Creative Writing Program pays fellows杏吧专区 tuition and health insurance to enable them to concentrate on writing and attending weekly workshops with faculty.
Fuller is a past recipient of the William J. Dor茅 Writing Fellowship from McNeese State 杏吧专区 and winner of the 2013 Swan Scythe Press Chapbook Contest.
He is the author of five poetry collections since 2010: 杏吧专区淭he Dissenter杏吧专区檚 Ground,杏吧专区 杏吧专区淔lood,杏吧专区 杏吧专区淣otes to a Husband,杏吧专区 杏吧专区淟ancelot,杏吧专区 and 杏吧专区28 Blackbirds at the End of the World.杏吧专区
His work has appeared in Louisiana Literature, Pembroke Magazine, Crab Orchard Review, Aldus, Trigger, Louisiana Review, Swamp Lily Review and others. He is the editor of Yellow Flag Press.