David Ray
Poet, Author
1932 –
Who is David Ray?
David Ray, is an American poet and author of fiction, essays, and memoir. He is particularly noted for poems that, while being rooted in the personal, also show a strong social concern.
Ray is the author of twenty-two volumes of poetry, including "Hemingway: A Desperate Life", "When", "Music of Time: Selected and New Poems" and The Death of Sardanapalus and Other Poems of the Iraq Wars. "After Tagore: Poems Inspired by Rabindranath Tagore" was published in India im 2008.
Ray has taught at several colleges in the United States, including Cornell University, Reed College, the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, and the University of Missouri-Kansas City, where he is professor emeritus. He has also taught in India, New Zealand, and Australia, and has published books inspired by the cultures of each country.
Among other prizes, including an N.E.A. fellowship for fiction and five P.E.N. Newspaper Syndicate Awards for short stories, David Ray is a two-time winner of the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America.
He and his wife, poet and essayist Judy Ray, live in Tucson, Arizona.
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