Gregory Fraser is a poet, editor, and professor. He is the author of three poetry collections, Strange PietÀ, Answering the Ruins, and Designed for Flight, as well as the coauthor, with poet Chad Davidson, of two college textbooks, Writing Poetry and Analyze Anything: A Guide to Critical Reading and Writing. Fraser grew up in Philadelphia and its suburbs and earned a B.A. at Ursinus College, an M.F.A. at Columbia University, and a Ph.D. at the University of Houston. His poetry has appeared in such journals as the Paris Review, the Southern Review, the Gettysburg Review, and Ploughshares. The recipient of grants from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, Fraser is a professor at the University of West Georgia and serves as features editor of the Birmingham Poetry Review.
