Lee Newton

Lee Newton

Director of Education Abroad and International Programs
Assoc. Prof., Dept. of English

    Bradley Hall 239
    (309) 677-2471
   lnewton@bradley.edu

 

M.F.A., George Mason University
B.A., Bradley University

Biography

Mr. Newton was twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He has received a fellowship from the Illinois Arts Council and a Lannan Fellowship from the Folger Shakespeare Library. He has won Amaranth's Editor's Choice Award and been a finalist for the Charles Johnson Award in Poetry and the Virginia Down's Poetry Prize.

Scholarship

Mr. Newton's most recent creative and scholarly works has appeared in Pleiades, Wisconsin Review, Lowell Review, Crab Orchard Review, Phoebe, and the Asian Pacific American Journal. He is currently completing a poetry manuscript Everything Broken and a play entitled Hana.

Service

Mr. Newton serves on the Editorial Advisory Board for Collegiate English. He is the faculty advisor for Broadside Magazine.