Biography
Dana is a Callaloo Fellow and the author of the chapbook Good Friday 2000. Twice he won the Eva Jane Romaine Coombe Writer’s Residency, and also had residencies at the Vermont Studio Center and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. The recipient of a fellowship from Virginia Commonwealth University, he was profiled in The Paris Review Daily in 2013.
His poetry and fiction have appeared, or are forthcoming, in Blackbird, Plume, African Voices, Tuck Magazine, Carve, The Killens Review, Gumbo: An Anthology of African American Writing and elsewhere. NPR affiliate WBEZ 91.5 FM Chicago broadcast a dramatic reading of one of his short stories on Stories on Stage. His nonfiction has appeared, or is forthcoming, in numerous publications, including Guernica, AlterNet, americanshortfiction.org, The Source, the Washington Afro-American, the Princeton Alumni Weekly and the Black Issues Book Review.
Currently, he is at work on a full-length poetry collection. He is also penning essays and short stories.
A New Yorker with Southern roots, Dana grew up in Birmingham, Alabama and Washington, DC. After graduate school he moved to New York City, where he lived for 16 years, mainly in Harlem and Washington Heights. He now lives in Beacon, NY.
His poetry and fiction have appeared, or are forthcoming, in Blackbird, Plume, African Voices, Tuck Magazine, Carve, The Killens Review, Gumbo: An Anthology of African American Writing and elsewhere. NPR affiliate WBEZ 91.5 FM Chicago broadcast a dramatic reading of one of his short stories on Stories on Stage. His nonfiction has appeared, or is forthcoming, in numerous publications, including Guernica, AlterNet, americanshortfiction.org, The Source, the Washington Afro-American, the Princeton Alumni Weekly and the Black Issues Book Review.
Currently, he is at work on a full-length poetry collection. He is also penning essays and short stories.
A New Yorker with Southern roots, Dana grew up in Birmingham, Alabama and Washington, DC. After graduate school he moved to New York City, where he lived for 16 years, mainly in Harlem and Washington Heights. He now lives in Beacon, NY.
Education
VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY; Richmond, VA; MFA in Creative Writing; May 1996
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY; Princeton, NJ; BA in English; June 1993
CAVE CANEM REGIONAL WORKSHOPS; Brooklyn, NY
92nd STREET Y – UNTERBERG POETRY CENTER; New York, NY
- Won the School of Graduate Studies’ Creative Writing Fellowship.
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY; Princeton, NJ; BA in English; June 1993
- Cum laude. Concentration in Creative Writing.
CAVE CANEM REGIONAL WORKSHOPS; Brooklyn, NY
- Took 2 advanced creative-writing workshops (poetry classes) between 2010 and 2011. Studied under Kimiko Hahn and Linda Susan Jackson.
92nd STREET Y – UNTERBERG POETRY CENTER; New York, NY
- Took 6 advanced creative-writing workshops (4 in poetry, 2 in fiction) between 2001 and 2009. Studied under Cynthia Zarin, Charles Martin, Joan Silber, Rachel Wetzsteon and others.
Select Honors & Awards
- VCCA residency, 10/14
- 2014 Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop, Brown University.
- The Paris Review Daily published a profile on Crum in 5/13.
- Vermont Studio Center residency, 3/13.
- 2013-2014 Eva Jane Romaine Coombe Writer’s Residency at The Seven Hills School.
- 2012-2013 Eva Jane Romaine Coombe Writer’s Residency at The Seven Hills School.
- Teacher Recognition Award (along with a Gold Key), Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, 2010.
- Judge for 2006 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award (fiction category).
- Dramatic Reading of “My Heavenly Father," Stories on Stage, NPR affiliate WBEZ 91.5 FM, Chicago, Illinois, 3/26/03.
- Semifinalist, The Raymond Carver Short Story Award at the University of Washington, Carve Magazine, 2001.
- Semifinalist, James Fellowship for the Novel-in-Progress, the Heekin Group Foundation, 1998.
- Creative Writing Fellowship, Virginia Commonwealth University’s School of Graduate Studies, 1995.
- Fiction Contest Winner, Virginia Commonwealth University’s English Department, 1995.
- Black History in the Making, Virginia Commonwealth University & the Creative Writing Program, 1994–95.
Select Press Coverage
- The Paris Review Daily published a profile on Crum in May 2013.
- poets.org (the Web site of The Academy of American Poets), press release for Cave Canem’s “Writing Across Cultures” reading, May 2010
- The Huffington Post, "Power in a Poem" by Abigail Pogrebin, Feb. 4, 2009
- furthermucker.com, “On Bronx Biannual” by Miles Marshall Lewis, 2008
- Bronx Biannual: The Official Blog of Bronx Biannual: The Literary Journal of Urbane Urban Literature + The Paris Misadventures of a Hiphop American in the 21st Century, “New Review (zooooo!)” by Dan Tres Omi, Feb. 21, 2007
- tayarijones.com/blog, “And The Winner Was...” by Tayari Jones, Nov. 4, 2006
- ink19.com; Sheila Scoville's review of Bronx Biannual, issue no 1; Oct. 2006
- akashicbooks.com; Press release for Bronx Biannual, issue no 1; 2006
- NPR affiliate WBEZ 91.5 FM, Chicago, Illinois. As part of WBEZ's Stories on Stage series, actor Ryan Priester did a dramatic reading of Crum's short story “My Heavenly Father” before a live audience. Dec. 27, 2003
- harlemlive.org, “A New Writer on the Scene” by Isabelle Pierre, Spring 2001
Complete Curriculum Vitae (Résumé)
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