Events

READINGS, LECTURES, AND PANELS Catamaran Magazine Fall 2021 Launch Reading, featured reader (Crowdcast via Catamaran Literary Reader), September 14, 2021. Malibu Optimist Club, guest speaker (Zoom via Malibu Optimist Club), July 8, 2021. Malibu Rotary Club, featured reader (Zoom via Malibu Rotary Club), March 31, …

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Bio

JOHN STRULOEFF is Professor and Director of Creative Writing at Pepperdine University in Malibu, CA. He recently served as the third Malibu Poet Laureate and is the author of The Work of a Genius and The Man I Was Supposed to Be. His poetry and fiction have appeared in The Atlantic, Verse Daily, The Sun, PN Review (UK), The Southern Review, Prairie Schooner, The Literary Review, Vagabond (Bulgaria), Poet Lore, Rattle, Open Spaces Magazine, Willow Springs, Harpur Palate, The American Journal of Poetry, ZYZZYVA, and many other journals and magazines. A former Stegner and NEA Fellow, he now lives in the foothills of the Santa Monica Mountains.

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Praise

THE MAN I WAS SUPPOSED TO BE Finalist for the John Ciardi Prize for Poetry Finalist for the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize Finalist for the Colorado Prize for Poetry “These poems are beautifully shaped, and written with such verve that they finally become a …

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