Howard McCord

Howard McCord was born and raised in El Paso. A veteran of the Korean War, he is the author of more than twenty-five volumes of poetry, short fiction, and essays, including The Man Who Walked to The Moon (McPherson), The Great Toad Hunt and Other Expeditions (Crossing Press), The Wisdom of Silenus: Collected Essays (St. Andrews College Press), The Old Beast (Copper Canyon Press), and, with Walter Lowenfels, The Life of Fraenkel's Death (Washington State U. Press). For over thirty years he...See more

Howard McCord was born and raised in El Paso. A veteran of the Korean War, he is the author of more than twenty-five volumes of poetry, short fiction, and essays, including The Man Who Walked to The Moon (McPherson), The Great Toad Hunt and Other Expeditions (Crossing Press), The Wisdom of Silenus: Collected Essays (St. Andrews College Press), The Old Beast (Copper Canyon Press), and, with Walter Lowenfels, The Life of Fraenkel's Death (Washington State U. Press). For over thirty years he taught at Bowling Green State University, Ohio, first as director of the Creative Writing Program, later as director of the Ph.D.-Creative Emphasis degree program. Among his many honors are two NEA fellowships, the 1990 Ohioana Award for poetry, the Golden Nugget Award (U.T. at El Paso), the Hart Crane Award, a National Woodrow Wilson fellowship and a Fulbright fellowship. See less