George Looney’s eleventh collection of poetry, What Light Becomes: The Turner Variations, has won the 2018 Red Mountain Poetry Prize and will be published in June 2019. His novel, Report from a Place of Burning, published in 2018, was co-winner of the Leapfrog Press Fiction Award. His other books include an award-winning novella Hymn of Ash, published by Elixir Press in 2008; as well as the poetry collections Meditations Before the Windows Fail, published by Lost Horse Press in 2015; the book-length poem Structures the Wind Sings Through, published by Full/Crescent Press in 2014; Monks Beginning to Waltz, published by Truman State University Press in 2012; A Short Bestiary of Love and Madness, published by Stephen F. Austin State University Press in 2011; Open Between Us, released in 2010 by Turning Point, an imprint of WordTech communications; The Precarious Rhetoric of Angels, which won the tenth annual White Pine Press Poetry Prize and was published in 2005; Animals Housed in the Pleasure of Flesh, which won the 1995 Bluestem Award; and Attendant Ghosts, published by Cleveland State University Press in 2000.
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