{"title":"Charles Hood","description":"\u003cp\u003eCharles Hood (born 1959, Los Angeles) is a poet, naturalist, wildlife photographer, and Professor Emeritus of English at Antelope Valley College in California's Mojave Desert, where he taught for 32 years. He holds a B.A. from California State University, Northridge and an M.F.A. in poetry from the University of California, Irvine, where he studied under Charles Wright and Louise Gluck, and he is a Research Fellow at the Nevada Museum of Art's Center for Art and Environment in Reno.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHood has written more than twenty books across poetry, fiction, and natural history. His poetry collection \u003cem\u003eSouth x South: Poems from Antarctica\u003c\/em\u003e (Ohio University Press, 2013) won the 2012 Hollis Summers Poetry Prize, and \u003cem\u003ePartially Excited States\u003c\/em\u003e (University of Wisconsin Press, 2017) won the 2016 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry. His natural-history books for Heyday include \u003cem\u003eWild LA\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eA Salad Only the Devil Would Eat: The Joys of Ugly Nature\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eNocturnalia: Nature in the Western Night\u003c\/em\u003e. He has held a Fulbright Scholarship in Ethnopoetics in Papua New Guinea and a National Science Foundation Artists and Writers fellowship in Antarctica, and he has observed more than 6,000 bird species and 1,000 mammal species in the wild.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHis one JEF Books title is the novel \u003cem\u003eMouth\u003c\/em\u003e (2017), illustrated by Christine Mugnolo, which won the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.experimentalfiction.com\/pages\/patchen\"\u003e2016 Kenneth Patchen Award for the Innovative Novel\u003c\/a\u003e, the prize the press awards each year to an adventurous unpublished novel. It is the only book of fiction Hood has published, set against a poetry career that runs from California State University, Northridge and the University of California, Irvine to fellowships in Antarctica and Papua New Guinea. Read it here: \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.experimentalfiction.com\/products\/mouth\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eMouth\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStart with \u003cem\u003eMouth\u003c\/em\u003e, his Patchen Award novel and his only book of fiction on the JEF list. \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.experimentalfiction.com\/products\/mouth\"\u003eView the book\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"mouth","title":"Mouth","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMouth\u003c\/em\u003e is Charles Hood's novel, illustrated throughout by Christine Mugnolo, and the only work of fiction Hood has published. The premise is small and unstable: two lovers at the entrance to a fragile relationship, and the dreams and nightmares that connect them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt won the 2016 \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.experimentalfiction.com\/pages\/patchen\"\u003eKenneth Patchen Award\u003c\/a\u003e for the Innovative Novel, a recognition the press extends as much to Mugnolo's illustrations as to Hood's prose: image and sentence holding the two-person fragility together across the length of the book.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Charles Hood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39350600695965,"sku":null,"price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0537\/8480\/5533\/products\/mouth-jef.png?v=1624835049"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.experimentalfiction.com\/collections\/charles-hood\/kenneth-patchen-winner.oembed","provider":"The Journal of Experimental Fiction","version":"1.0","type":"link"}