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Dr. David Pichaske, author, publisher and a longtime English professor at Southwest Minnesota State University, has been nominated for the annual Kay B. Sexton Award, which honors a lifetime contribution to Minnesota’s literary community.
The winner of the award will be announced in late February. It is sponsored by Common Good Books of St. Paul and affiliated with the annual Minnesota Book Awards contest.
Pichaske has taught at SMSU since 1981, has authored, co-authored or co-edited at least 17 books, and is the publisher-editor of two acclaimed independent book-publishing houses, Spoon River Poetry Press and Ellis Press. He lives in rural Granite Falls.
He is a three-time recipient of the Fulbright Scholarship. As a professor and publisher, he has been an avid promoter of rural regional literature, giving public talks on the importance of regional writing, and teaching the works of such regional authors as Bill Holm, Paul Gruchow and Meridel LeSueur, among others.
The most recent book he has written was 2010’s “Song of the North Country: A Midwest Framework to the Songs of Bob Dylan,” published by Contiuum Press of New York, and critically praised by scholars in America and Europe. Pichaske is a leading Dylan scholar, contributing in spring 2011 to Minnesota Public Radio’s celebration of Dylan’s 70th birthday, and has his own entry in the official “The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia.” Pichaske also has collaborated frequently with Joe Amato on books focused on southwest Minnesota history and people.
As a book publisher, Pichaske has been ground-breaking. He was the first to publish a book by Bill Holm, 1985’s “The Music of Failure.” Pichaske also has published books by Leo Dangel, Adrian Louis, Norbert Blei, Dave Etter, Mark Vinz, Nebraska State Poet William Kloefkorn, Linda Hasselstrom, Phil Dacey and Dana Yost, among others.
Pichaske was nominated for the Kay Sexton Award by a group of southwest Minnesota authors.
Dr. David Pichaske, author, publisher and a longtime English professor at Southwest Minnesota State University, has been nominated for the annual Kay B. Sexton Award, which honors a lifetime contribution to Minnesota’s literary community.
The winner of the award will be announced in late February. It is sponsored by Common Good Books of St. Paul and affiliated with the annual Minnesota Book Awards contest.
Pichaske has taught at SMSU since 1981, has authored, co-authored or co-edited at least 17 books, and is the publisher-editor of two acclaimed independent book-publishing houses, Spoon River Poetry Press and Ellis Press. He lives in rural Granite Falls.
He is a three-time recipient of the Fulbright Scholarship. As a professor and publisher, he has been an avid promoter of rural regional literature, giving public talks on the importance of regional writing, and teaching the works of such regional authors as Bill Holm, Paul Gruchow and Meridel LeSueur, among others.
The most recent book he has written was 2010’s “Song of the North Country: A Midwest Framework to the Songs of Bob Dylan,” published by Contiuum Press of New York, and critically praised by scholars in America and Europe. Pichaske is a leading Dylan scholar, contributing in spring 2011 to Minnesota Public Radio’s celebration of Dylan’s 70th birthday, and has his own entry in the official “The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia.” Pichaske also has collaborated frequently with Joe Amato on books focused on southwest Minnesota history and people.
As a book publisher, Pichaske has been ground-breaking. He was the first to publish a book by Bill Holm, 1985’s “The Music of Failure.” Pichaske also has published books by Leo Dangel, Adrian Louis, Norbert Blei, Dave Etter, Mark Vinz, Nebraska State Poet William Kloefkorn, Linda Hasselstrom, Phil Dacey and Dana Yost, among others.
Pichaske was nominated for the Kay Sexton Award by a group of southwest Minnesota authors.
