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| Hank Lewis has come to Centre as a visiting professor for the 2004-05 term from the College of the Bahamas, where he taught creative writing. Though he has lived for four years in the Bahamas, he is from the United States and has also taught writing, American ethnic literature, and literature with a focus in American Studies at the University of Virginia, Denison University, Mary Washington College and Trinity College (CT). His short stories have appeared in Ploughshares, Colorado Review, Callaloo, New Letters, Kenyon Review and African-American Review, and in many anthologies, including Bedford Guide for College Writers (Bedford), Cry of An Occaision (LSU Press), Speak My Name (Beacon), Gumbo (Harlem Moon/Doubleday) and Best American Short Stories of 1996 (HoughtonMifflin). He is recipient of a fellowship from the Virginia Commision for the Arts, a prize in fiction from the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation and is was the first writer to receive the Special Award for New Writing from the Fellowship of Southern Writers. His first book, In the Arms of Our Elders, was published by Carolina Wren Press in 1995, and his second collection of stories I Got Somebody in Staunton will be published by Amistad/HarperCollins in the spring of 2005. He has also published poetry in Beyond the Frontier: An Anthology of New African-American Poetry. He earned his B.A. in literature and literary writing from Trinity College and his M.F.A. in fiction from the University of Virginia, where he twice won the Balch Prize for best short story by a graduate student.
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