John Gallaher

John Gallaher (born January 6, 1965) is an American poet and assistant professor of English at Northwest Missouri State University, and co-editor of The Laurel Review, supported by Northwest's English Department.[1][2] He is the author or co-author of five poetry collections, most recently, In a Landscape (BOA Editions, 2014).[3] His honors include the 2005 Levis Poetry Prize for his second book, The Little Book of Guesses (Four Way Books).[4] His poetry has been published in literary journals and magazines including Boston Review, Colorado Review, Crazyhorse, Field, The Literati Quarterly, jubilat, The Journal, Ploughshares, and in anthologies including The Best American Poetry 2008.[5]

John Jerome Gallaher
Born(1965-01-06)January 6, 1965

Born in Portland, Oregon, Gallaher has lived in Missouri, Kansas, California, Alabama, Long Island, Texas, Arkansas, and Ohio. He received his MFA from Texas State University and his Ph.D from Ohio University, where he worked for a time as an assistant editor of The Ohio Review.[6] He currently resides in Maryville, Missouri, where he teaches creative writing and composition courses at Northwest Missouri State University.[7]

Published works
  • In a Landscape (BOA Editions, 2014)[8]
  • Your Father on the Train of Ghosts (With G.C. Waldrep)(BOA Editions, 2011)[9]
  • Map of the Folded World (University of Akron Press, 2009)[10]
  • The Little Book of Guesses (Four Way Books, 2007)[11]
  • Gentlemen in Turbans, Ladies in Cauls (Spuyten Duyvil, 2001)
gollark: Tradition is *a* reason to think something might be better, but a fairly weak one, since the people of the past had rather different values, and not tools like computer simulations or more recent mathematical analyses of voting systems.
gollark: Also, yes, the context is quite different so reasons from then may not apply.
gollark: It's also possible that more complex systems may have been impractical before computers came along, although that doesn't apply to, say, approval voting.
gollark: First-past-the-post is the simplest and most obvious thing you're likely to imagine if you want people to "vote for things", and it's entirely possible people didn't look too hard.
gollark: I don't know if the people designing electoral systems actually did think of voting systems which are popular now and discard them, but it's not *that* much of a reason to not adopt new ones.

References
  1. The Laurel Review Archived 2007-10-24 at the Wayback Machine of Northwest English Department.
  2. The Laurel Review > Staff Archived 2011-07-20 at the Wayback Machine
  3. Library of Congress Online Catalog > John Gallaher
  4. Four Way Books > Author Page > John Gallaher
  5. Ken Newton (2007-01-25). "Poet's work embodies world's contradictions: Thoughts start out in pocket-sized notebook, evolve into verse". St. Joseph News-Press.
  6. John Gallaher Archived 2008-07-27 at the Wayback Machine at Spuyten Duyvil Books, 2001. Short bio.
  7. Northwest Missouri State University, Meet the Faculty Archived 2007-10-18 at the Wayback Machine
  8. BOA Editions In a Landscape Archived 2014-07-08 at the Wayback Machine
  9. BOA Editions Your Father on the Train of Ghosts Archived 2013-12-19 at the Wayback Machine
  10. Library of Congress Online Catalog > John Gallaher
  11. Library of Congress Online Catalog > John Gallaher
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