The Missouri Review

George Looney has received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for his poetry, as well as two Ohio Arts Council Fellowships and, most recently, a $10,000 fellowship from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts for 2006. Looney is the author of Animals Housed in the Pleasure of the Flesh (winner of the 1995 Bluestem award), Attendant Ghosts (Cleveland State UP, 2000), and most recently, a chapbook of Greatest Hits (Pudding House Press, 2001).  His work has been published in journals as The Kenyon Review, New England Review, The Southern Review, Shenandoah, The Gettysburg Review, among others. Looney's most recent collection of poems, The Precarious Rhetoric of Angels, which won the 10th annual White Pine Press and was published by White Pine Press in 2005.  He has also published a novella, Hymn of Ash, which won the Elixir Press Fiction Chapbook Award and was published by Elixir Press in  2008.  Another collection of poetry, Open Between Us, will be published by WordTech Communications early in 2010 on their Turning Point imprint. Looney currently directs the Creative Writing Program at Penn State Eerie. [2008]