Alumni
Specialties
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personal essay
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short fiction and poetry
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memoir and autobiography
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creative writing
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contemporary American poetry and fiction, especially the short story and the novel
Educational Background
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M.F.A. : University of Iowa, 1970.
Publications
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The Florist's Daughter. Hampl, Patricia, Harcourt, Author, 2007.
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Blue Arabesque: A Search for the Sublime. Hampl, Patricia, Harcourt, Author, 2006.
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I Could Tell You Stories: Sojourns in the Land of Memory.. Hampl, Patricia, W.W. Norton and Co, 1999.
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Virgin Time. Hampl, Patricia, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1992.
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Spillville. Hampl, Patricia, Milkweed Editions, 1987.
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Resort and Other Poems. Hampl, Patricia, Houghton Mifflin, 1983.
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A Romantic Education. Hampl, Patricia, Houghton Mifflin, 1981.
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Woman Before an Aquarium. Hampl, Patricia, University of Pittsburph Press, 1978.
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Burning Bright, anthology of sacred poetry (Judaism, Christianity, Islam). Ed. Patricia Hampl. Ballantine, 1995.
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The St. Paul Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Co-ed. Patricia Hampl. Introduction by Patricia Hampl. Saint Paul: Borealis Books, 2004.
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Virgin Time. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1992. Paperback, Ballantine, 1993.
Awards
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Minnesota Book Award, Memoir, The Florist's Daughter, 2008
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American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2007
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University of Minnesota, Ruth Christie Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching of English, 2002
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University of Minnesota, All-University Award for Outstanding Graduate and Professional Teaching; Designation as Distinguished Graduate Professor, 2001
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Regents Professor
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National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (for prose)
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Guggenheim Fellowship
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Distinguished Achievement Award (from The Western Literature Association at their 36th annual conference), October 2001
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National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (for poetry)
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Pushcart Prize (for "The Bill Collector's Vacation")
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College of Liberal Arts Scholars of the College, University of Minnesota, 1988
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Finalist, National Book Critics Circle Awards (for I Could Tell You Stories.)
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Fulbright Scholar Award
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Honorary Doctorate, University of St. Thomas
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National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
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College of Liberal Arts Teaching Award, University of Minnesota, 1985
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Minnesota Book Award (for the short story, "The Summer House," published as a book by Minnesota Center for Book Arts), 2000
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MacArthur Fellowship, 1990 - 1995
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McKnight Distinguished University Professor
Courses Taught
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Heroic Poetics
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EngW 5210 - Topics in Advanced Literary Nonfiction
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EngW 5310 Reading as Writers (The Memoir)
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History in a Personal Voice
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Reading Across Genres
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Contemporary American Poets
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Introduction to Fiction Writing
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Introduction to Creative Writing
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First Person Singular
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