Hilda Raz
Glenna Luschei Editor in Chief, PRAIRIE SCHOONER
201A Andrews Hall
Lincoln, NE 68588-0333
Prairie Schooner
Hilda Raz
Professor of English and Women's Studies
Hilda Raz is the Luschei editor of PRAIRIE SCHOONER and professor of English and Women's and Gender Studies. Her most recent books are ALL ODD AND SPLENDID, poetry from Wesleyan University Press, WHAT BECOMES YOU, memoir with Aaron Raz Link, published in the American Lives series by the University of Nebraska Press (finalist in two categories for the Lambda Literary Award), and WHAT HAPPENS, Bison Books, U. of Nebraska P.. Previous books include TRANS (Wesleyan), DIVINE HONORS (Wesleyan), LIVING ON THE MARGINS (Persea), and others. She is the founding director and editor of the annual PRAIRIE SCHOONER Book Prizes in Short Fiction and Poetry.
Degrees and institutions granting the degree
- Boston University, BA
Professional Areas of Specialty
- Poetry and literary nonfiction, journal editing, women's and collaborative literatures. Graduate Poetry Writing and Women and Poetry.
Personal teaching statement
- My experience writing and publishing, editing a major literary quarterly, and teaching undergraduate and graduate students provides them with a practical fix on contemporary writing and publishing. Students contribute their own ideas about news that stays news, Ezra Pound's definition of art.
Selected publications and/or projects
- What Becomes You , with Aaron Raz Link, essays (paper, 2008; hard 2007, U. of Nebraska Press)
- All Odd and Splendid (2008 Wesleyan University Press Poetry Series)
- What Happens (2009 U. of Nebraska Press)
- Trans (2001, Wesleyan UP Poetry Series)
- Divine Honors (1997, Wesleyan Poetry Series)
- Living on the Margins (1999, Persea)
- Best of Prairie Schooner, Personal Essays (University of Nebraska Press, 2000)
- Best of Prairie Schooner, Fiction and Poetry (UNP, 2001)
