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Idaho Writers-in-Residence

This page list Idaho’s Writers-in-Residence back to 1984, and Idaho’s two Poet Laureates that came before. Sources of information are listed for general information, and for each writer.

SOURCES

CMarie Fuhrman

Idaho Writer in Residence 2022

Select Works

  • Camped Beneath the Dam: Poems. Floodgate Poetry Series Volume 6. 2020.

Malia Collins

Idaho Writer-in-Residence 2019

Articles

  • “Malia Collins chosen as Idaho’s Writer in Residence.” Lewiston Tribune. June 27, 2019.
  • “Town Talk.” Idaho Press-Tribune. page 3 section C.
  • Idaho Commission on the Arts https://arts.idaho.gov/writer-in-residence/
  • Writers and Staff 2019, Writers at Harriman http://www.writersatharriman.org/writers–staff.html

Select Works

  • Collins, Malia. Pele and Poliahu: A Tale of Fire and Ice. BeachHouse Publishing, 2005.
  • Collins, Malia. Santa’s Hawaiian Holiday. BeachHouse Publishing, 2007.

Christian Winn

Idaho Writer in Residence 2016 to 2019

Articles

  • Idaho Writer-in-Residence https://arts.idaho.gov/writer-in-residence/ Idaho Commission on the Arts
  • Oland, Dana. “Christian Winn named Idaho’s Writer in Residence.” The Idaho Statesman. 20 May 2016. Arts Blog. https://www.idahostatesman.com/entertainment/arts-culture/arts-blog/article78864092.html. Accessed May 6, 2019.

Select Works

  • Winn, Christian. Naked Me. Seattle, Washington: Dock Street Press, 2014.
  • Winn, Christian. What’s wrong with you is what’s wrong with me. Seattle, Washington: Dock Street Press, 2017.

Diane Raptosh

Idaho Writer in Residence 2013 to 2016

Articles

  • Catan, Wayne. “Boise poet skillfully renders unique perspectives.” The Idaho Statesman. 28 Oct. 2016, Books.
  • Schuessler, Jennifer. “Is Poetry Dead? Not if 45 Official Laureates Are Any Indication.” New York Times. July 27, 2014, page A1.

Select Works

  • Raptosh, Diane. American Amnesiac. Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania: Etruscan Press, 2013.
  • Raptosh, Diane. Human Directional. Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania: Etruscan Press, 2016.

Brady Udall

Idaho Writer in Residence 2010 to 2013

Articles

  • “Boise State teacher named Idaho’s Writer in Residence.” The Idaho Statesman. 20 May 2010. Local.

Select Works

  • Udall, Brady. Letting Loose the Hounds: stories. New York: W.W. Norton, 1997.
  • Udall, Brady. The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint: a novel. New York: Norton, 2001.
  • Udall, Brady. The Lonely Polygamist: a novel. New York: W.W. Norton, 2010.

Anthony Doerr

Idaho Writer in Residence 2007 to 2010

Articles

  • “Doerr to be 2008 writer in residence.” The Idaho Statesman. 13 May 2007, Life page 4.
  • “Top writer to read in Twin Falls.” Times-News. April 17, 2008.
  • The 2015 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Fiction: All the Light We Cannot See, by Anthony Doerr (Scribner). https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/anthony-doerr. Accessed May 7, 2019.

Select Works

  • Doerr, Anthony. All the Light We Cannot See: a novel. New York: Scribner, 2014.
  • Doerr, Anthony. Memory Wall: stories. New York: Scribner, 2010.
  • Doerr, Anthony. The Shell Collector: stories. New York: Penguin Books, 2003.

Kim Barnes

Idaho Writer in Residence 2004 to 2007

Articles

  • Oland, Dana. “State commission names winners of annual arts grants.” The Idaho Statesman. 9 June 2004, Local page 1.

Select Works

  • Barnes, Kim. In the Wilderness: Coming of Age in an Unknown Country. New York: Doubleday, 1996.
  • Barnes, Kim. Hungry for the World: A memoir. New York: Villard Books, 2000.
  • Barnes, Kim. In the Kingdom of Men: a novel. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2012.

Jim Irons

Idaho Writer in Residence 2001 to 2004

Articles

  • Oland, Dana. “Arts Commission to award funds.” The Idaho Statesman. 12 June 2001, Local page 1.

Select Works

  • Three Twins Project [No More Fires to Fight by Jim Irons, Naming the Rivers by David D. West, and Sunburn Touch by Mark Sheffield Brown]. Twin Falls, Idaho: The authors, 2005.

Bill Johnson

Idaho Writer in Residence 1999 to 2000

Articles

  • “Panel to discuss Maclean’s book.” Lewiston Morning Tribune. 24 Sept. 1999, Entertainment page 2D.
  • “Registration taken for writers’ meeting.” Lewiston Morning Tribune. August 17, 2001, page 3C.

Select Works

  • Johnson, William. A River Without Banks: place and belonging in the Inland Northwest. Corvallis, Oregon: Oregon State University Press, 2010.
  • Johnson, William. Dogwood. Boise, Idaho: Limberlost Press, 2019.
  • Johnson, William. Out of the Ruins. Lewiston, Idaho: Confluence Press; Kansas City, Kansas: Distributed by Midpoint Trade Books, 2000.
  • Johnson, William. What Thoreau Said: ‘Walden’ and the Unsayable. Moscow, Idaho: University of Idaho Press, 1991.

Lance Olsen

Idaho Writer in Residence 1996 to 1997

Articles

  • Ryan, John. “UI professor examines a changing humanity.” Moscow-Pullman Daily News. 15 June 1998. Local.
  • Huntington, Rebecca. “Creative writing alive and well and diverse in Idaho.” Lewiston Morning Tribune. 12 Jan. 1996.
  • Lance Olsen, Fiction Collective Two (FC2)

Select Works

  • Olsen, Lance. Tonguing the Zeitgeist. San Francisco, California: Permeable Press, 1994.
  • Olsen, Lance. Circus of the Mind in Motion: postmodernism and the comic vision. Detroit, Michigan: Wayne State University Press, 1990.
  • Olsen, Lance. Girl Imagined by Chance. eBook. [Place of publication not identified]: University of Alabama Press (Bibliovault), 2015.
  • Olsen, Lance. Nietzsche’s kisses. Normal, Illinois: FC2, 2006.

Clay Morgan

Idaho Writer in Residence 1994-1995

Articles

  • “Author to read at publication party.” Lewiston Morning Tribune. November 10, 1995.
  • Jones, Katherine. “‘I write out of wonder:’ Idaho’s newest writer-in-residence explores life’s possibilities.” The Idaho Statesman. December 12, 1993 page D1.
  • Grote, Tom. “Author relates western life over radio.” The Star News. October 15, 1986 page B1.
  • Ford, Frances W. “Clay Morgan.” Idaho Arts Journal. November/December 1987 page 8.
  • “Clay Morgan: Conversations with a writer.” 49 Latitudes. Spring 1995 page 3.

Select Works

  • Morgan, Clay; and Steve Bly. Boise, Idaho: The City and its People. 1993.
  • Morgan, Clay. Santiago and the Drinking Party. New York, NY: Viking, 1992.
  • Morgan, Clay. Aura. Lewiston, Idaho: Confluence Press, 1983.

Daryl Jones

Idaho Writer in Residence 1992 to 1993

Articles

  • “BSU Official to give poetry reading Thursday.” Lewiston Morning Tribune. 5 Nov. 1993.
  • Dornfeld, Cindy. “Boise Poet to lecture, read work.” Post Register. 8 Oct. 1992, page C1.
  • “Boise poet named Idaho writer-in-residence.” Lewiston Morning Tribune (ID), January 17, 1992.
  • “Governor Appoints Writer-in-Residence.” Idaho Mountain Express. January 22, 1992, page A19.
  • Flagg, Marianne. “Personalities: Solace at Home: Idaho’s writer-in-residence focuses thoughts and poems on a sense of place.” The Idaho Statesman. June 16, 1992, page 1D.

Select Works

  • Jones, Daryl. The Dime Novel Western. Bowling Green, Ohio: Popular Press, Bowling Green State University, 1978.
  • Jones, Daryl. Someone Going Home Late: poems. Lubbock : Texas Tech University Press, 1990.

Neidy Messer

Idaho Writer in Residence 1990 to 1991

Articles

  • “Boise poet named Idaho writer-in-residence.” Lewiston Morning Tribune. January 17, 1992.
  • “Writer in residence to read her poetry.” Lewiston Morning Tribune April 19, 1991.
  • Flagg, Marianne. “A new reign of poetry: Idaho’s writer-in-residence will tell stories with poems.” The Idaho Statesman. January 8, 1990, page D1.

Select Works

  • Messer, Neidy. In Far Corners. Lewiston, Idaho: Confluence Press, 1990.

Eberle Umbach

Idaho Writer in Residence 1988 to 1989

Articles

  • Hitchcock, Leonard. “Idaho’s Writer in Residence: The Person and the Program.” Idaho Librarian. October 1988, page 76.
  • “Writers Talk – Eberle Umbach.” Thursday, August 19, 2010. https://writers-talk.blogspot.com/search?q=umbach. Accessed May 7, 2019.
  • “Umbach to conduct reading.” The Star News. Thursday, December 21, 1989 page A-3.

Select Works

  • Dresher, Olivia, editor. In Pieces: an anthology of fragmentary writing. Seattle, Washington: Impassio Press, 2006.

Robert Wrigley

Idaho Writer in Residence 1986 to 1987

Articles

  • Hartley, Terry Rich. “English professor, poet named Idaho Writer in Residence.” Twin Falls Times News. January 3, 1986, page D1.
  • McFarland, Ron. “Vantage Point: A Poet in Broad Daylight.” Idaho Arts Journal. Sandpoint, Idaho: Idaho Arts, Inc., November/December 1987, page 24.
  • Merriam, Ginny. “Idaho poet Robert Wrigley: Writing for the common man.” Idaho State Journal. February 16, 1995 page E3.
  • Proctor, David. “Poet finally gains ‘real writer’ status.” USA Today. March 27, 1995.

Select Works

  • Wrigley, Robert. Anatomy of Melancholy and Other Poems. New York, New York: Penguin Poets, 2013.
  • Wrigley, Robert. Reign of Snakes: poems. New York, N.Y.: Penguin Books, 1999.
  • Wrigley, Robert. In the Bank of Beautiful Sins. New York, N.Y.: Penguin, 1995.
  • Wrigley, Robert. Earthly Meditations: new and selected poems. New York, N.Y.: Penguin Books, 2006.

Ron McFarland

Idaho Writer in Residence 1984 to 1985

Articles

  • “Idaho names writer-in-residence.” The Idaho Statesman. September 28, 1983 page D1.
  • Karinen, Jennifer. “A poet for the people – UI professor takes on an array of voices in his storytelling poems.” Lewiston Morning Tribune. September 22, 2000: 1C.
  • McFarland, Ron. “With Sharon Olds in Idaho.” Weber: The Contemporary West. Poetry Supplement Summer 1999, Volume 17.0. https://weberstudies.weber.edu/archive/archive%20C%20Vol.%2016.2-18.1/Vol%2017.0%20poetry99/McFarland.htm. Accessed May 7, 2019.

Select Works

  • McFarland, Ronald E. The long life of Evangeline: a history of the Longfellow poem in print, in adaptation and in popular culture. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Co., 2010.
  • McFarland, Ronald E. Subtle Thieves. Pecan Grove Press, San Antonio, Texas: Pecan Grove Press, 2012.
  • McFarland, Ronald E. The Rockies in First Person: a critical study of recent American memoirs from the region. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Co., 2008.

Sudie Stuart Hager

Idaho Poet Laureate 1949-1982

Articles

  • “Idaho Has Had Two Poet Laureates.” Idaho Daily Statesman. November 15, 1979. Page D2.
  • “Kimberly Woman Named Idaho Poet Laureate.” The Idaho Daily Statesman. 3 Feb. 1949, p. 3.
  • “Sudie Stuart Hager (1895-1982).” Tellers of Weird Tales: Artists & Writers in The Unique Magazine. Sunday, April 30, 2017. https://tellersofweirdtales.blogspot.com/2017/04/sudie-stuart-hager-1895-1982.html. Accessed May 8, 2019.
  • Internet Speculative Fiction Database http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?22598

Select Works

  • “Inheritance.” Weird Tales. July 1940, page 111.
  • Hager, Sudie Stuart. Earthbound. Dallas, Texas: Kaleidograph Press, 1947.
  • Hager, Sudie Stuart. Beauty Will Abide. Dallas: Triangle Pub. Co., 1970.

Irene Welch Grissom

Idaho Poet Laureate 1923-1948

Articles

  • “Ms. Grissom poet Laureate for Gem State.” The Idaho Daily Statesman. 17 June 1923, p. 13.
  • Grissom, Irene Welch. Letter to Della Adams Leitner. April 11, 1936. In the Boise Public Library Idaho Files (GRISSOM, IRENE WELCH)

Select Works

  • Grissom, Irene Welch. The Superintendent. New York; Seattle, Washington: The Alice Harriman Company, 1910.
  • Grissom, Irene Welch. A Daughter of the Northwest. Boston, Massachusetts: Cornhill Co., 1918.
  • Grissom, Irene Welch. The Passing of the Desert. Garden City, N.Y.: Printed at the Country Life Press, 1924.
  • Grissom, Irene Welch. Verse of the New West. Caldwell, Idaho: The Caxton Printers, Ltd., 1931.
  • Grissom, Irene Welch. Under Desert Skies. Caldwell, Idaho: The Caxton printers, ltd., 1935.

 

This page updated by Ronnie Joiner on May 14, 2022.