Veach, Dan - 2016 - Dan Veach is the founder and editor of Atlanta Review and author of Elephant Water, winner of the Georgia Author of the Year Award in poetry. A translator of Chinese, Arabic, Spanish and Anglo-Saxon, Dan has won the Willis Barnstone Translation Prize. He is editor and co-translator of Flowers of Flame: Unheard Voices of Iraq (Michigan State University Press, 2008), which won an Independent Publisher Book Award. In 2008 he was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Georgia Writers Association. Dan has performed his poetry worldwide, including Oxford University, People’s University in Beijing, the American University in Cairo, and the Adelaide Festival in Australia. He is also a clarinetist and composer whose work has been performed by concert bands and symphony orchestras.
Posted By: Ted Cole - 06-23-2016
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