Gary Fincke has published fifteen collections of poetry, including ones that won the 
2003 Ohio State University/The Journal Poetry Prize, the 2005 Arkansas Poetry Prize, 
the 2010 Stephen F. Austin Poetry prize, the 2015 Jacar Press Poetry Prize, and the 
2018 Wheelbarrow Books (Michigan State) Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared in 
such periodicals as Harper's, The Paris Review, The Kenyon Review, The Georgia 
Review, American Scholar, The Gettysburg Review, The Missouri Review, Black Warrior 
Review, Ploughshares, Arts & Letters, and DoubleTake. He received the Bess Hokin 
Prize for poems published in Poetry. He is the Emeritus Charles Degenstein Professor 
of Creative Writing at Susquehanna University, where he founded and then directed the 
Writers Institute and the nationally recognized undergraduate creative writing major for 
more than two decades.