Gary Fincke

Fiction, Memoir, Poetry

Gary Fincke is the author of over two dozen works of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. His poetry has won numerous awards, including the the Stephen F. Austin Poetry Prize, the Rose Lefcowitz Prize, the Ohio State University Press poetry prize, and the Bess Hokin Prize from Poetry magazine. Fincke's prose work has also earned various honors, including the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, a PEN Syndicated Fiction Prize, a George Garrett Fiction Prize, a Lewis Prize for Nonfiction, and two Pushcart Prizes. Fincke is the founder the Susquehanna University Writers Institute. 


Festival Years: 2002