Alexander Long is the author of Vigil (New Issues Press Poetry Series, 2006) and Noise (RockWay Press, 2007).  With Christopher Buckley, he is co-editor of A Condition of the Spirit: the Life and Work of Larry Levis (Eastern Washington University Press, 2004).  A five-time nominee for a Pushcart Prize, his work has appeared in American Writers (Charles Scribner's Sons), Blackbird, The Cream City Review, 5 AM, Pleaides, The Prose Poem: an International Journal, Quarter After Eight, Quarterly West, Rivendell, The Southern Review, Three Candles Journal, Third Coast, and elsewhere.  Long has received a fellowship from the Prague Summer Seminars and a residency from the Vermont Studio Center.  In 2007, he was awarded an Individual Artist Grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts in Creative Non-Fiction.  A native of Sharon Hill, Pennsylvania, he is a member of the writing faculty at Philadelphia University, and writes, plays, and travels with the band Redhead Betty Takeout.       
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