JOHN STRULOEFF -- Bio

JOHN STRULOEFF directs the Creative Writing program at Pepperdine University in Malibu, CA. His fiction and poetry has appeared recently in The Atlantic Monthly, PN Review, The Southern Review, ZYZZYVA, Prairie Schooner, The Literary Review, Rattle, Open Spaces Magazine, and many other journals and magazines. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and 2009 NEA Literature Fellow, he now lives with his wife and son in the foothills of the Santa Monica Mountains.

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“These poems are beautifully shaped, and written with such verve that they finally become a dark, unswerving music of self-discovery. The subjects are varied – from a night time constellation to a salmon run. What is constant is the level of craft and care, and the eloquence of feeling which shines out of this distinguished debut collection.” -- Eavan Boland, author of Domestic Violence “John Struloeff writes solid, sonorous lines. He knows work and has respect for work. He doesn't need to mystify you with fancy footwork. He locks into the struggle it is to be a man. I put him in the great tradition of Philip Levine and Richard Hugo.” -- Howard Junker, ZYZZYVA “John Struloeff’s poems bear witness with unsentimental tenderness and sober respect to the community of loggers and fishermen of the Northwest, men making difficult lives out of a natural world whose spiritual power they contact only as they destroy it.” -- Donald G. Marshall, The Poetry Foundation "A poet to watch." -- John R. Guthrie, Harvard Square Commentary "John Struloeff’s extended nature metaphors give poignancy to verse detailing loss." -- NewPages.com	JOHN STRULOEFF directs the Creative Writing program at Pepperdine University in Malibu, CA. His fiction and poetry has appeared recently in The Atlantic Monthly, PN Review, The Southern Review, ZYZZYVA, Prairie Schooner, The Literary Review, Rattle, Open Spaces Magazine, and many other journals and magazines. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and 2009 NEA Literature Fellow, he now lives with his wife and son in the foothills of the Santa Monica Mountains. Visit John's blog.				John Struloeff STEGNER FELLOW, 2005-2007 STANFORD UNIVERSITY 2009 NEA LITERATURE FELLOW FINALIST FOR SIX NATIONAL POETRY BOOK COMPETITIONS Individual poems first published in The Atlantic Monthly The Southern Review ZYZZYVA Prairie Schooner Rattle Open Spaces Magazine War, Literature & the Arts Rosebud Magazine and many others...