Peter Makuck

Peter Makuck is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at East Carolina University, where he founded and edited Tar River Poetry for almost thirty years. In 2008, he was Lee Smith Visiting Poet at North Carolina State University. He has also been a visiting writer at Brigham Young University and University of North Carolina at Wilmington. His stories, poems, reviews, and essays have appeared in Poetry, The Nation, The Georgia Review, The Hudson Review, The Gettysburg Review, and The Sewanee Review. In addition to five previous volumes of poems, five poetry chapbooks, and three collections of short stories, he has co-edited a book of essays, An Open World, on the Welsh poet Leslie Norris. His most recent collection of short stories is Allegiance and Betrayal (Syracuse University Press, 2013). Long Lens: New & Selected Poems, also published by BOA Editions, was released in 2010 and won the Brockman-Campbell Award (given annually for the best collection of poetry by a North Carolinian). Former Fulbright Exchange Professor to France and recipient of the Charity Randall Citation from the International Poetry Forum, he lives with his wife Phyllis on Bogue Banks, one of North Carolina’s barrier islands.