T. R. Hummer

Essayist, Author

1950 –

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Who is T. R. Hummer?

Terry Randolph Hummer is an American poet, critic, essayist, editor, and professor. His most recent poetry collection is Ephemeron. He has published poems in literary journals and magazines including The New Yorker, Harper's, Atlantic Monthly, Paris Review, and Georgia Review. His honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship inclusion in the 1995 edition of Best American Poetry, and two Pushcart Prizes.

Hummer was born and raised in Mississippi, and graduated from University of Southern Mississippi with a B. A. in 1972 and M. A. in 1974. He studied with Gordon Weaver and D.C. Berry. He graduated from the University of Utah with a PhD, where he studied with Dave Smith and was editor of Quarterly West in 1979.

He taught at Oklahoma State University, where he was poetry editor of The Cimarron Review. In 1984 he relocated to Kenyon College; there, after visiting positions at Middlebury College and the University of California at Irvine, he became editor of The Kenyon Review. In 1989 he returned to Middlebury as editor of New England Review. He relocated to the University of Oregon in 1993, where he directed the MFA Program in Creative Writing. In 1997, he taught at Virginia Commonwealth University. He taught at the University of Georgia, and was editor of The Georgia Review. He teaches currently at Arizona State University,.

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Born
Aug 7, 1950
Macon
Also known as
  • Terry Randolph Hummer
  • Terry Hummer
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • PhD, University of Utah
    American literature
    (1977 - 1980)
  • Creative writing
Lived in
  • Tempe
    (2006 - )

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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