Michael Dumanis
Michael Dumanis (born January 18, 1976 in Moscow, Soviet Union) is an American poet, professor, and editor of poetry. Works. Dumanis’s first collection of poetry, "My Soviet Union" (University of Massachusetts Press, 2007), won the 2006 Juniper Prize for Poetry. His second collection of poems, "Creature," is being published by Four Way Books in 2023. Other works have appeared in literary journals, including "American Poetry Review", "The Believer", "Colorado Review", "The Common", "Copper Nickel", "Denver Quarterly", "H.O.W. Journal", "New England Review", "Ninth Letter", "Pleiades", "Ploughshares", "Post Road", and "Prairie Schooner". Along with poet Cate Marvin, Dumanis coedited  the anthology "Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century" (Sarabande Books, 2006). He also served as the Section Editor for the poetries of Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Macedonia, Russia, and Slovakia in "The New European Poets", an anthology from Graywolf Press (2008). Additionally, he acted as the editor for Cleveland State University Poetry Center's new publications from 2007, when he took over the small press’s directorship, until 2012. Biography. Born in the Soviet Union, Dumanis came to the United States with his parents when they were granted political asylum in 1981. From 2005–2007, he taught creative writing at  Nebraska Wesleyan University in Lincoln, Nebraska. From 2007 to 2012, was a professor of English at Cleveland State University and served as Director of the Cleveland State University Poetry Center, a literary small press. In 2012, he joined the literature faculty at Bennington College. In 2015, he relaunched the print literary journal "Bennington Review", and serves as its editor. He is married to the poet and novelist Monica Ferrell and lives in North Bennington, Vermont. Education. Dumanis holds a BA from Johns Hopkins University, an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and a PhD in English & Creative Writing from the  University of Houston. Honors. In 1999, Dumanis received a fellowship from the Fulbright Commission, and has since received fellowships from Yaddo, the James Michener Foundation, the Wesleyan University Writers’ Conference, the Sewanee Writers' Conference, the Headlands Center for the Arts, and the Civitella Ranieri Foundation in Umbertide, Italy. He was also awarded a 2012 Creative Workforce Fellowship from the Community Partnership for Arts and Culture and a grant from the Ohio Arts Council.