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NJCU Professor Awarded 2003 NJSCA Fiction Fellowship
Dr. Ethan Shaskan Bumas, an assistant professor of English at New Jersey City University, has been awarded a 2003 Fiction Fellowship by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.
Dr. Bumas' Fiction Fellowship for $7,300 was awarded in recognition of his outstanding work. He is one of 37 artists selected from 544 applicants in seven artistic disciplines to be awarded a 2003 fellowship by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.
Dr. Bumas is the author of Love Songs of Fruit Flies and Other Species, a 2002 book that was a finalist for the Flannery O'Connor Award in Short Fiction. His 1995 book, The Price of Tea in China, won the Associated Writing Programs Prize for Short Fiction, was a finalist for the PEN America Center West Best Book of the Year in Fiction award, and was nominated as an American Library Association's "Notable Book of the Year." He is also author of the play, "The Sign Shoppe: A Semiotic Love Story."
His work has been published in numerous journals, including, most recently, Pleiades, turnrow, minnesota review, Boulevard, Southwest Review, The Gettysburg Review, Arizona Quarterly Review, American Literature, Early American Literature, and Symposium.
An assistant professor of English at NJCU since 2000, Dr. Bumas served as guest fiction and poetry editor for the minnesota review in 2001. He has been a visiting writer-in-residence at the University of Indiana and a visiting assistant professor of English at the University of Missouri-Columbia.
Dr. Bumas holds a dual Ph.D. in English and American literature and comparative literature, an M.A. in English, and an M.F.A.W. in fiction from Washington University, and a B.A. with a double major in urban studies and English from the University of Pennsylvania.
News releases by Ellen Wayman-Gordon, and Kelly Resch, Office of Public Information.
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