NAME: Timothy Steele          DATE OF BIRTH: 22 January 1948

          DEGREES:

B.A., Stanford University, 1970
M.A., Brandeis University, 1972
Ph.D., Brandeis University, 1977

          PUBLICATIONS:

Uncertainties and Rest. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1979.

Sapphics against Anger and Other Poems. New York: Random House, 1986.

Missing Measures: Modern Poetry and the Revolt against Meter. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1990.

The Color Wheel. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994.

Sapphics and Uncertainties: Poems 1970-1986. Fayetteville: The University of Arkansas Press, 1995.

(Editor) The Poems of J. V. Cunningham. Athens: Ohio/ Swallow, 1997.

All the Fun's in How You Say a Thing: An Explanation of Meter and Versification. Athens: Ohio/Swallow, 1999.

Toward the Winter Solstice. Athens: Ohio/Swallow, 2006.

Poems, articles, and reviews in Los Angeles Times, Modern Fiction Studies, New Republic, Paris Review, Poetry, Shenandoah, The Spectator (England), Southern Review, Threepenny Review, Yale Review, and other periodicals.

          HONORS AND AWARDS:

Guggenheim Fellowship, 1984-85

Peter I.B. Lavan Younger Poet Award, Academy of American Poets, 1986

Commonwealth Club of California Medal for Poetry, 1986

Los Angeles PEN Center, Literary Award for Poetry, 1987

Outstanding Professor Award, California State University, Los Angeles, 1992

California Arts Council Grant, 1993

President's Distinguished Professor Award, California State University, Los Angeles, 1998-99

Elizabeth Matchett Stover Award, Southwest Review, 2002

Robert Fitzgerald Award for Excellence in the Study of Prosody, 10th Annual West Chester University Poetry Conference, 2004.

          EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

Jones Lecturer in Poetry, Stanford University, 1975-77

Lecturer in English, UCLA, 1977-83

Lecturer in English, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1986

Professor of English, California State University, Los Angeles, 1987-present

          WORK ADDRESS:

Department of English, California State University, Los Angeles, 5151 State University Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90032. Phone: 323/343-4285

          HOME ADDRESS:

2732 Angelo Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90077

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