George Looney

George Looney: his eleventh collection of poetry, What Light Becomes: The Turner Variations, won the 2018 Red Mountain Poetry Prize and was published in June 2019. His novel, Report from a Place of Burning, published in 2018, was co–winner of the Leapfrog Press Fiction Award. For eight years he served as editor–in–chief of Mid–American Review, for which he is now translation editor. His M.F.A. is from Bowling Green State University. He is editor–in–chief of Lake Effect and chair of the creative writing program at Penn State Behrend, and he was co–founder of the original Chautauqua Writers’ Festival.