William Luvaas (born 1945, Oregon) is an American author and educator.
Career
editIn 1965, Luvaas was one of two AmeriCorps VISTA volunteers in Alabama, working with black sharecroppers and domestic workers in a government-funded program "designed to provide needed resources to nonprofit organizations and public agencies to increase their capacity to lift communities out of poverty."[1][2][3]
Luvaas is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley. He developed the first high school-level fiction writing course in New York. As fiction coordinator for New York State Poets in Public Service and New York State Poets in Schools, he was writer-in-residence for schools, hospitals and juvenile detention facilities.[4][5][6][7]
In 2006 he received the National Endowments for the Arts fellowship for prose, awarded while he was teaching at San Diego State University.[8]
His short story collection Ashes Rain Down: A Story Cycle (Spuyten Duyvil) was awarded Huffington Post’s 2013 Book of the Year and was a finalist for the Next Generation Indie Book Awards. In addition to Ashes Rain Down, he has written four other published novels, The Seductions of Natalie Bach (Little, Brown), Going Under (Putnam), Beneath The Coyote Hills (Spuyten Duyvil),[9] and Welcome To Saint Angel (Anaphora Literary Press), plus a short story collection: A Working Man’s Apocrypha (Oklahoma Univ. Press), called "brilliant" by the Los Angeles Times reviewer, Susan Salter Reynolds.[10][11][12]
Luvaas is the editor of an anthology of writings about the Coronavirus: The Corona Chronicles from Cutthroat: A Journal of the Arts, and an anthology of California writers, Into The Deep End: The Writing Center Anthology 3.
References
edit- ^ "VISTA Trainees Graduate" (PDF). Civil Rights Movement Archive. The Southern Courier. Retrieved 20 January 2024.
- ^ "Career Day Stresses Variety". 10 May 1967 The Berkeley Gazette. The Berkeley Gazette. Retrieved 20 January 2024.
- ^ "AmeriCorps VISTA". AmeriCorps. United States Government. Retrieved 20 January 2024.
- ^ Kathe, Katheleen. "Writer teaches students to create fiction". newspapers.com. Newspapers. Retrieved 20 January 2024.
- ^ "Guest speakers". The Journal News. Retrieved 20 January 2024.
- ^ "Poetry's healing effect on children". 20 Feb 1990 The Journal News. Retrieved 20 January 2024.
- ^ "Luzerne students write stories". 13 Feb 1980 The Post-Star. Retrieved 20 January 2024.
- ^ "William Luvaas". National Endowment for the Arts. NEA.gov. Retrieved 7 January 2024.
- ^ Wilkens, John (2 October 2016). "Reading: William Luvaas". San Diego Union Tribune. Retrieved 20 January 2024.
- ^ Reynolds, Susan Salter. "Discoveries". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 20 January 2024.
- ^ Goodrich, Chris (26 March 1995). "Fiction Book Review". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 20 January 2024.
- ^ Marotta, Linda (5 March 1995). "In Short: Fiction". New York Times. Retrieved 20 January 2024.
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