Alex Grant (poet)

Alex Grant is a Scottish-born American poet and instructor.

Biography

Background

He was born in Greenock, Inverclyde, Scotland, and grew up in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland.

Personal life

Grant resides in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, with his wife, Tristi.

Literary career

Grant's work has appeared in Arts & Letters, Best New Poets 2007, Connecticut Review, The Missouri Review, The Seattle Review and Verse Daily. Grant has appeared on WUNC's The State of Things show with Frank Stasio.

Awards and honors

Grant has been a six-time nominee for the Pushcart Prize, an American literary prize.

He has also received the following honors:

• Pavel Srut Poetry Fellowship, 2004 (a program of Western Michigan University; named in honor of Czech poet Pavel Srut)
• The Pablo Neruda Prize in Poetry – Honorable Mention, 2005 (named in honor of Chilean poet Pablo Neruda)
• The Randall Jarrell Prize, 2006 (named in honor of American poet Randall Jarrell)
• Kakalak Poetry Prize, 2006
• Best New Poets 2007
• Oscar Arnold Young Award, 2007

• "Prague Summer Program Update" (Microsoft Word). Western Michigan University. April 2004. Retrieved November 1, 2012. 
• "The Nimrod/Hardman Writing Awards". Nimrod. University of Tulsa. Archived from the original on August 30, 2005. Retrieved November 1, 2012. 
• "Randall Jarrell/Harperprints Poetry Chapbook Competition". North Carolina Writers Network. Archived from the original on January 11, 2007. Retrieved November 1, 2012. 
• "Kakalak: An Anthology of Carolina Poets". Main Street Rag Press. Retrieved November 1, 2012. 
• "Best New Poets 2007 Selections". Best New Poets. August 21, 2007. Retrieved November 1, 2012. 
• Cockrell, W. Edgar, III, ed. (2007). "Oscar Arnold Young Contest for Book" (PDF). Bay Leaves. Poetry Council of North Carolina (33). Retrieved November 1, 2012.