TESS GALLAGHER

WRITING AND OTHER ACCOMPLISHMENTS IN PAST EIGHT YEARS

(R indicates books and projects completed on behalf of Raymond Carver)

BOOKS PUBLISHED:

The Sky Behind the Forest, by Liliana Ursu, translations by Tess Gallagher and Adam Sorkin (forthcoming from Bloodaxe Books, 1997)

Portable Kisses, (Bloodaxe Books, England, 1996)

My Black Horse: New and Selected Poems (from Bloodaxe Books, England, 1995)

Portable Kisses Expanded (Capra Press, 1994)

Moon Crossing Bridge (Graywolf Press, 1992)

Portable Kisses (Capra Press, 1992)

BOOKS REISSUED:

Instructions to the Double (Carnegie-Mellon, 1994) (Classic Contemporary edition)

The Lover of Horses (Reprint) by Graywolf Press, paperback, 1992)

BOOKS IN TRANSLATION:

Italian translation, The Lover of Horses, translation by Riccardo Duranti, Minimum Fax, Rome

Die Umarmung German translation, poems from Moon Crossing Bridge and Amplitude, translation by Renata Cinti-Gehrmann, Residenz Verlag, Salzburg, 1996

French translation of Moon Crossing Bridge, translation by Christine Rimoldy, L'Incertain, Paris (1994)

Dutch translation of The Lover of Horses, Arbeiderspers Press, Amsterdam

Swedish translation of The Lover of Horses, translation by Ia Lind, Stockholm

Japanese translation of The Lover of Horses, translation by Emiko Kuroda, Tokyo

R Japanese translation of Raymond Carver's Ultramarine with 12-page foreword by Tess Gallagher entitled "False Sky." Translation by Emiko Kuroda.

R Prose introduction by Tess Gallagher of Raymond Carver's Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? . Translation by Haruki Murakami. Introduction entitled "The Ghosts of Dreams."

R Prose introduction by Tess Gallagher to the Slovenian edition of Raymond Carver's stories, edited by Ales Debeljak.

The Lover of Horses also translated into Italian (Peronti), Catalonian, and published in English edition of Hamish-Hamilton, 1989, and in paperback by Minerva, Spring 1990 (currently out of print).

SHORT STORIES:

1995 Contract from Scribner for short story collection, At the Owl Woman Saloon, to be published in 1997.

"A Box of Rocks" ( Story, spring 1995)

"Creatures" ( Ploughshares, fall 1995)

"Mr Woodriff's Neckties" ( Glimmer Train, winter 1996)

"She Who Is Untouched by Fire" ( Northwest Review, Vol. 34, No. 1, winter 1996)

"Venison Pie" (forthcoming Indiana Review, spring 1996)

"Rain Flooding Your Campfire" ( Sycamore Review, summer 1996)

"I Got a Guy Once" ( ZYZZYVA, summer 1996)

"A Glimpse of the Buddha" ( Five Points, fall 1996)

"To Dream of Bears" ( Five Points, winter, 1997)

"Coming & Going" ( Ploughshares, fall 1996)

"The Mother Thief" ( Michigan Quarterly Review, fall 1996)

"My Gun" (forthcoming in spring 1997 issue of Kenyon Review)

"The Woman Who Prayed"

"The Red Ensign"

"The Poetry Baron" (forthcoming in The Atlantic Monthly, July 1997)

INTRODUCTIONS:

R Introduction to All of Us: The Collected Poems of Raymond Carver, 1996, Harvill Press, England.

R Introduction to Short Cuts: the Screenplay, by Robert Altman and Frank Barhydt, Capra Press, 1993. (Film directed by Robert Altman and based on nine short stories and one poem by Raymond Carver).

R Introduction to No Heroics, Please, Collins-Harvill (Great Britain), 1991. Vol. 1 of Raymond Carver's Uncollected Work. Edited by William Stull. In paperback by Vintage Books, 1992.

R Introduction to Carver Country, a book of photographs by Bob Adelman with selections from stories and poems by Raymond Carver. Introduction 10,000 words. Scribners, 1990. Presents an assessment of how Raymond Carver's work relates to various parts of the country where his works are set, an attempt to locate exactly where Carver Country is and who its people are. Includes some photographs of people on whom his work was based and places where stories were set.

R Introduction to Raymond Carver's last book of poems, A New Path to the Waterfall, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1989. Edited and arranged these poems after his death.

Introduction to the Pushcart Anthology of Best of the Small Presses for 1989 XLV, 1989.

R Introduction of "Lemonade," a poem by Raymond Carver published in the summer fiction edition of Esquire, 1989

ESSAYS:

"Staying on Earth" (On writing "I Stop Writing the Poem") forthcoming in feature issue on "Origins" from Poetry East, Fall 1996.

"The Pure Place" (with an interview by Tess Gallagher with her mother, Georgia Bond, forthcoming in an anthology edited by Marilyn Kallet and Judith Cofer, The Woman Who Slept With One Eye Open)

Translator's Notes for Liliana Ursu's book of poetry, The Sky Behind the Forest (included extensive revisions to the poems to bring them from the Romanian into English, as well as choosing and ordering the poems in the book. Also has been able to have many of the poems published in periodicals.)(forthcoming from Bloodaxe Books, London, 1996)

"Unending" (To be used by Cathleen Rountree in her book Country of Marriage)

"Although I've Never Carried a Gun: Some Notes on Women and Hunting in the Northwest" (Included in anthology relating to women and hunting, edited by Pam Houston, Ecco Press)

"Patterns of Devotion: A Collaborative Friendship of Painters and Writers" (Talk delivered by Tess Gallagher at Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, April 23, 1995)

"Oxygen or Champagne? States of Being and the Creative Moment" (Commencement address delivered to University of Washington College of Arts and Sciences, June 11, 1994)

R An essay appears in Remembering Ray, Capra Press, 1993. Edited by William Stull and Maureen Carroll.

R "Kindred Spirits" (Condensed version of Foreword to Short Cuts: the Screenplay, Harper's Bazaar, September 1993)

"Viva la Vida" (For Tacoma Art Museum brochure for Alfredo Arreguin's show, August 18 - November 25, 1992)

"To Vex the Dream" (Remarks delivered at the 1992 European Poetry Festival in Sibiu, Romania, October 1992)

"About `Owl-Spirit Dwelling'" (Comments about the writing of the poem)

"Poetry, Libraries and Earthworms" (Talk given at American Library Association Conference in New Orleans June 1993, when Moon Crossing Bridge was placed on Most Notable Books list)

"3 a.m. Kitchen: My Father TalkingÄWriting in Another Voice" (In Poets' Perspectives: Reading, Writing, and Teaching Poetry, Charles R. Duke and Sally A. Jacobsen, eds., Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 1992: 31-36)

"Words from a Double Agent" (talk given at the Conference in the Humanities, Olympia, Washington, May 3, 1991. Tess was asked to fill in for Robert Coles who could not come at the last moment.)

"European Journal" ( Antaeus 61, Autumn 1988)

R "Raymond Carver, 1938-1988" ( Granta, Autumn 1988)

"Island-hopping in the Pacific Northwest: Test Gallagher discovers the gentle world of the San Juan Islands" ( Vogue, June 1990)

SIGNIFICANT INTERVIEWS:

R Interview with Viv Beeby of BBC Radio for special 2-part radio program on the relationship between Raymond Carver and Tess Gallagher, called "Pure Gravy" aired fall 199t; second program, on Tess Gallagher's poems aired spring 1997.

R Interview with Bob Portwary of Clark Television for BBC series entitled "Great Writers of the Twentieth Century" to include Raymond Carver.

Interview with Gabrielle IdletÄ"To Go Naked on Horseback: Tess Gallagher Interviewed" ( Indiana Review, spring 1996)

Interview with Katherine GriffinÄincluded in "Childless by Choice" ( Health, March/April 1996)

Interview with Kate Kellaway, "Kissing in Action," for London Observer, February 11, 1996. (in conjunction wtih release of Portable Kisses, from Bloodaxe Books, in Great Britain)

Interview with Jan HallidayÄ"Out of the Shadows" (Puget Sound, March/April 1994)

Interview with James McKinleyÄ"An Active Calm" ( New Letters, Vol. 59, No. 4, 1993)

R Interview with Robert StewartÄ"Reimagining Ray Carver on Film: A Talk with Robert Altman and Tess Gallagher" ( New York Times Book Review, 12 September 1993)

Interview with Jay Woodruff ( A Piece of Work: Five Writers Discuss Their Revisions, Univ. of Iowa Press, 1993)

Interview with John Marshall ( Los Angeles Times Magazine, January 12, 1992)

Interview with Merle BachmanÄ"Taking the Kiss" ( Poetry Flash, June 1992)

Interview with Bette TomlinsonÄ"The Salvation of Grief" ( Kinesis, No. 4, 1992)

Interview with Megan Sexton ( Georgia State Univ. Review, Spring 1992)

IMPORTANT ANTHOLOGIES WHERE WORK IS REPRESENTED (PARTIAL LISTING):

Last Call: Poems on Alcoholism, Addiction, and Deliverance, edited by Sarah Gorham and Jeffrey Skinner, Sarabande Books, 1997.

The Invisible Ladder, an Anthology of Contemporary American Poems for Young Readers, edited by Liz Rosenberg, Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1996.

Emergency Kit, Poems for Strange Times, edited by Jo Shapcott and Matthew Sweeney, Faber & Faber, 1996.

The First Yes, Poems About Communicating, edited by Barbara Goldberg, Dryad Press, in cooperation with the American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation, 1996.

Written in Water, Written in Stone: Twenty Years of Poets on Poetry, edited by Martin Lammon, University of Michigan Press, 1996.

Poetry of the American West, edited by Allison Hawthorn Deming, Columbia Univ. Press, 1996.

The Heart of Marriage: Discovering the Secrets of Enduring Love, by Cathleen Rountree, Harper Collins, 1996.

I Feel a Little Jumpy Around You, a Book of Her Poems & His Poems Collected in Pairs, edited by Naomi Shihab Nye and Paul B. Janeczko, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1996.

The Long Pale Corridor: Contemporary Poems of Bereavement, edited by Judi Benson and Agneta Falk, Bloodaxe Books, 1996.

Sports in America, edited by Peter Stine, Wayne State Univ. Press, 1995.

100 Great Poems by Women, edited by Carolyn Kizer, Ecco Press, 1995.

Northwest Passages: a Literary Anthology of the Pacific Northwest from Coyote Tales to Roadside Attractions, edited by Bruce Barcott, Sasquatch Books, 1994

Pushcart Prize XVIII: Best of the Small Presses (1993-94 edition), Pushcart Press, 1993

Poets' Perspectives: Reading, Writing and Teaching Poetry, edited by Charles R. Duke and Sally A. Jacobsen, Boynton/Cook, 1992

A New Geography of Poets, edited by Edward Field, Gerald Locklin and Charles Stetler, University of Arkansas Press, 1992

Best American Poetry 1992, edited by Charles Simic, Macmillan, 1992

Women Poets, From Antiquity to Now, edited by Aliki Barnstone and Willis Barnstone, Schocken Books, 1992

A Gathering of Poets, edited by Maggie Anderson and Alex Gildzen, Kent State University Press, 1992

Lovers, edited by Amber Coverdale Sumrall, The Crossing Press, 1992

Poets' Perspectives, Reading, Writing and Teaching Poetry, edited by Charles R. Duke and Sally Jacobsen, Boynton/Cook/Heinemann, 1992.

Louder Than Words, A Second Collection, Vintage Books, 1991.

Norton Anthology, 1991 edition, poetry, prose "Girls."

Touching Fire: Erotic Writings by Women, Carrol & Graf, 1989, ed. by Louise Loots and Jan Sturtevant.

AWARDS:

At the Owl Woman Saloon selected by the book sales representatives as the best book of fiction for Scribner's Fall 1997 offering.

Translation Award for The Sky Behind the Forest, poems by Liliana Ursu, translated by Tess Gallagher, Adam Sorkin with the poet, Bloodaxe Books, 1996

The Sky Behind the Forest selected as Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation in Great Britain.

Lyndhurst Foundation Fellowship--a 3-year stipend "designed to recognize the creative and significant work of a few special people whose accomplishments are of great merit."

Moon Crossing Bridge received a Washington State Governor's Award (October 1993)

Moon Crossing Bridge chosen for American Library Association's 1993 Notable Books List

Co-winner of the 1992 Denise and Mel Cohen Award for best poem, Ploughshares

Maxine Cushing Gray Foundation Award, 1989

Nominated for the Guardian Fiction Award for 1989 for The Lover of Horses

First Lois and Willard Mackey Chair holder in poetry, Beloit College, 1989.

First Lois and Willard Mackey Chair holder in fiction, Beloit College, 1990.

Literary Lion for 1989 and 1990, New York Public Library

New York State Arts Grant in Poetry, 1989

IMPORTANT APPEARANCES:

Reading at Whitworth College, Spokane, Washington, May 1997.

Reading at University of Washington, Tacoma campus, April 1997.

Two readings at Whitman College as Edward F. Arnold Visiting Professor of English, 1996-97.

Delivered the commencement address for the graduates of the University of Washington's College of Arts and Sciences, June 1994.

Keynote speaker at National Undergraduate Literature Conference, Weber State University, Ogden, Utah, April 1994.

Cockefair Chair Distinguished Writer-in-Residence, University of Missouri at Kansas City, April 1994.

Poet-in-Residence at Trinity College, Hartford, ConnecticutÄteaching workshops for inner city high school students, March 1994.

Invited participant at the International Poetry Festival in London, England.

Annually teaches poetry as part of the Seminars Afloat Program aboard the Seattle Resource Institute's sailing ship, as it sails among the San Juan Islands.

Invited participant at the European Poetry Festival in Sibiu, Romania.

Lectured and read poems as a participant in the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Festival in Morristown, New Jersey, September 1992.

Read poems and lectured at University of Zürich, June 1992.

Commencement Speaker for first graduating class at University of Washington Bothell Campus, June 12, 1992.

Keynote speaker, Washington State Humanities Conference, May 3, 1991. Robert Coles was scheduled to speak but I was asked to take his place when he had to cancel because of illness in his family.

Japanese American Center, Tokyo, November, 1990, reading poems from Moon Crossing Bridge. Also publication interview sessions for my book of short stories with all major Japanese newspapers. Transcribed meeting with the most famous woman writer in Japan, Jyakucho Setouchi, a Buddhist nun, for publication in the oldest women's magazine in Japan.

Represented America in the International Poetry Festival in Barcelona which hosted poets from eleven countries, June 1990. Read my poems while the audience listened with translations in Catalonian in hand.

AUDIO TAPES:

Poems available on tape from New Letters, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, MO, 1992, and American Audio Prose Library (poems and prose), Columbia, MOÄeach with an interview.

"Poems to a Listener" Readings and Conversation with Contemporary Poets, WFCR-FM, Hampshire House, University of Massachusetts, P.O. Box 33630, Amherst, MA 01003-3630 (1-800-747-7444)

Prose and Poetry on tape, as well as an interview on tape, from American Audio Prose Library, P.O. Box 842, Columbia, MO 65205,

FILM CONSULTANT WORK:

R Short Cuts, consultant with Robert Altman and Frank Barhydt for film based on nine short stories and a poem by Raymond Carver, New Line Productions, Released fall of 1993.

R Participated in the making of the documentary Luck, Trust and Ketchup, by Mike Kaplan, about the making of Short Cuts, 1993.

R BBC production on the life of Raymond Carver entitled "Dreams Are What You Wake Up From"

R PBS film on the life and writing of Raymond Carver entitled "To Write and Keep Kind," producer Jean Walkinshaw; John Keeble, writer

THEATRE CONSULTATION:

R "Lemonade"Ädance production by Vicki Lloyd Dance Troupe, Walla Walla, Washington, October 4-5, 1996.

R Mark Richard, production of The Heroes Journey, City Lit Theatre in Chicago, an adaptation of Raymond Carver's last book of poems, A New Path to the Waterfall, with prose from Tess Gallagher's introduction, and her Pushcart Anthology, 1990, introduction. Actor and actress represent Raymond Carver and Tess Gallagher in their last days. Script available from Mark Richard at City Lit Theatre.

R Harris Yulin, director of production of "Intimacy" in New York City and in Los Angeles.

TV & VIDEO PARTICIPATION:

R "To Write and Keep Kind" - KCTS-9 Documentary on RAYMOND CARVER, Producer: Jean Walkinshaw (first shown March 1992) later revised and expanded for PBS distribution.

R BBC interview with Tess Gallagher and Frank Barhydt regarding SHORT CUTS, Director: Basil Comely. (Barraclough Carey Moving Pictures--Episode 7)

R TV ONTARIO - "IMPRINT" - November 1993 - Panel Discussion on Works of Raymond Carver (Tess Gallagher, Gary Fisketjon, plus two Canadian writer/critics and Canadian moderator)

R LISTENING FOR GOD - Augsburg Fortress, Contains an interview with Tess 9/93, re: Raymond Carver's writing

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