Professor Wins Whiting Writers’ Award
Paul Guest, poet and visiting professor of English at the University of West Georgia, is a recipient of the prestigious 2007 Whiting Writers’ Award. Guest attended the award banquet in New York City and is one of 10 emerging writers of exceptional talent and promise to receive the prize of $50,000 this year.
Guest, 33, is author of two collections of poetry: “The Resurrection of the Body and the Ruin of the World” and “Notes for My Body Double,” winner of the 2006 Prairie Schooner Prize.
Guest’s work has appeared in many journals including The Southern Review, Crazyhorse, Poetry, and Verse, and his chapbook, “Exit Interview,” is available at New Michigan Press.
Born in Chattanooga, Guest has a Master’s of Fine Art degree from Southern Illinois University and taught at the University of Alabama and the University of Tennessee before moving to Carrollton to teach at UWG.
The Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation has awarded more than $5 million to poets, fiction and nonfiction writers and playwrights since 1985. To learn more about the selection process and the awards, go to www.whitingfoundation.org.
