Alex Grant (poet)


Alex Grant is a Scottish-born American poet and instructor.

Biography

Background

He was born in Greenock, Inverclyde, Scotland, and grew up in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland.

Personal life

Grant resides in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, with his wife, Tristi.

Literary career

Grant's work has appeared in Arts & Letters, Best New Poets 2007, Connecticut Review, The Missouri Review, The Seattle Review and Verse Daily. Grant has appeared on WUNC's The State of Things show with Frank Stasio.

Awards and honors

Grant has been a six-time nominee for the Pushcart Prize, an American literary prize.
He has also received the following honors: