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Kurt Luchs is from Michigan. He has written humor for the New Yorker, the Onion and McSweeney's Internet Tendency. His books include a humor collection, "It's Funny until Someone Loses an Eye (Then It's Really Funny)", and a poetry chapbook, "One of These Things Is Not Like the Other". His first full-length poetry collection, "Falling in the Direction of Up", was recently issued by Sagging Meniscus Press. He won the 2019 Atlanta Review International Poetry Contest, the 2021 Eyelands Book Award, and a 2022 Pushcart Prize. This book won a James Tate Poetry Prize in 2021.

Produktbeschreibung
Kurt Luchs is from Michigan. He has written humor for the New Yorker, the Onion and McSweeney's Internet Tendency. His books include a humor collection, "It's Funny until Someone Loses an Eye (Then It's Really Funny)", and a poetry chapbook, "One of These Things Is Not Like the Other". His first full-length poetry collection, "Falling in the Direction of Up", was recently issued by Sagging Meniscus Press. He won the 2019 Atlanta Review International Poetry Contest, the 2021 Eyelands Book Award, and a 2022 Pushcart Prize. This book won a James Tate Poetry Prize in 2021.
Autorenporträt
Kurt Luchs was born in Cheektowaga, New York, grew up in Wheaton, Illinois, and has lived and worked all over the United States, mostly in publishing and media. Currently he's based in Kalamazoo, Michigan. His first poetry publication came at age 16 in the long-gone journal Epos, right next to a poem by Bukowski. He wrote comedy for television (Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher and the Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn) and radio (American Comedy Network), and contributed humor to the New Yorker, the Onion and McSweeney's Internet Tendency, among others. His poetry chapbooks include One of These Things Is Not Like the Other (Finishing Line Press 2019), and The Sound of One Hand Slapping (SurVision Press 2022). He won a 2022 Pushcart Prize, a 2021 James Tate Poetry Prize, the 2021 Eyelands Book Award for Short Stories, and the 2019 Atlanta Review International Poetry Contest. He is a Contributing Editor of Exacting Clam, the literary journal from Sagging Meniscus.