CREATIVE WRITING

Arthur Sze, IAIA Faculty

Biography:

Arthur Sze graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of California at Berkeley (B.A.) in 1972. He is the author of eight books of poetry, including Quipu (Copper Canyon Press, 2005), The Silk Dragon: Translations from the Chinese (2001), The Redshifting Web: Poems 1970-1998 (1998), and Archipelago (1995). His poems have appeared internationally in such magazines and anthologies as: The American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Carnet de Route (Paris), Chicago Review, Conjunctions, Dim Sum (Hong Kong), Field, The Kenyon Review, Kyoto Journal (Kyoto), Manoa, Orion, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, Unitas (Taipei), Virginia Quarterly Review, The Best American Poetry (2004), The Gift of Tongues, Photographers, Writers, and the American Scene: Visions of Passage, Poets of the New Century, Pushcart Prize XXI, and Verse and Universe. His poems have been translated into Chinese, Italian, Romanian, and Turkish. In 2005, he has given poetry readings at Yale University, Widener University, Colorado College, Arizona State University, Vermont Studio Center, and at Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. His teaching experience has included residencies at Brown University, Bard College, Naropa University; workshops at Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Napa Valley Writers’ Conference, and Port Townsend Writers’ Conference; and he was also the 2004-2005 Elizabeth Kirkpatrick Doenges Visiting Artist at Mary Baldwin College. He serves as a contributing editor to Manoa: An International Journal of Pacific Writing. He is a member of the Creative Writing faculty and has taught at the Institute of American Indian Arts for over twenty years.

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Professional Awards:

His literary awards include a Western States Book Award (2002), a three-year Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Writers’ Award (1998-2000), an Asian American Literary Award (1999), a Balcones Poetry Prize (1999), a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (1997), an American Book Award (1996), a Lannan Literary Award for Poetry (1995), three Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry fellowships (1983, 1994, 1997), and two National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing fellowships (1982, 1993).

Teaching Statement:

"Teaching at the Institute of American Indian Arts has been an exciting privilege. I have worked, to the best of my ability, to inspire, stimulate, and challenge students to grow intellectually, emotionally, and personally. I am pleased to see a younger generation of Native writers emerge."