Neal Bowers is the author of eight books that span a variety of genres—poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and literary scholarship. Individual works have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, Poetry, Hudson Review, American Scholar, Sewanee Review, and approximately 50 other literary journals. His awards include a Fellowship for the National Endowment for the Arts, The Midland Author's Award, the Frederick Bock Prize from Poetry magazine, and the Master Columnist Award from the Iowa Newspaper Foundation.

• Office:  439 Ross
• Office hours: By appointment
• Office phone: (515) 294-8753
• Home phone: (515) 232-02227
• Web Site:  http://www.nealbowers.com
• E-mail: nbowers@iastate.edu
• Interests:
  • Poetry - Fiction (specifically the novel)
  • Nonfiction
  • Literary Scholarship in Modern and Contemporary American Poetry
• Selected Publications:
  • Words for the Taking: The Hunt for a Plagiarist, 2nd Ed. (Southern Illinois University Press, 2007)
  • Out of the South (Louisiana State, 2002)
  • Loose Ends (Random House, 2001)
  • Words for the Taking (W.W. Norton, 1997)
    
  • Night Vision (BKmK Press, 1992)
  • Lost in the Heartland (Cedar Creek Press, 1990)
  • James Dickey: Poet as Pitchman (Univ. of Missouri Press, 1985)
  • The Golf Ball Diver (New Rivers Press, 1983)
  • Theodore Roethke: The Journey from I to Otherwise (Univ. of Missouri Press, 1982)
• Affiliations:
  • Advisory Editor, Sewanee Review
  • Nominator and Judge, Aiken Taylor Modern Poetry Award

• Degrees:
  • Ph.D., University of Florida