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“A Strange Joy.” Novel. 536 manuscript pages, 2009

“Remembering Time: Stories and Novellas.” 457 manuscript pages, 2009

“Gifts from the Heart: Stories, Memories, & Chronicles of Lou Gonzales Oller.” Selected and edited with an Introduction by Alexander Blackburn. Forthcoming, University of Colorado Foundation. 300 manuscript pages, 2009

Meeting the Professor: Growing Up in the William Blackburn Family. Winston-Salem: John F. Blair, 2004. Foreword by Fred Chappell. Autobiography/Biography.

Creative Spirit: Toward a Better World. Berkeley: Creative Arts Book Company, 2001. Essays.

Suddenly a Mortal Splendor. Dallas: Baskerville, 1995. Novel.

Editor, Higher Elevations: Stories from the West: A “Writers’ Forum” Anthology. Athens: Swallow Press/Ohio University Press, 1993.

A Sunrise Brighter Still: The Visionary Novels of Frank Waters. Athens: Swallow Press/ Ohio University Press, 1991. Literary Criticism.

Editor, The Interior Country: Stories of the Modern West. Swallow Press/ Ohio University Press, 1987. Anthology edited with the assistance of Craig Lesley.

The Cold War of Kitty Pentecost. Chicago: Swallow Press, 1979. Novel.

The Myth of the Picaro: Continuity and Transformation of the Picaresque Novel, 1554-1954. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1979. Literary Criticism.

Editor-in Chief and Publisher, with Craig Lesley, Bret Lott, and Victoria McCabe, Writers’ Forum. Vols. I (1974) through XXI (1995). Literary journal of fiction and poetry-- over 30,000 submissions-- with occasional essays devoted to western writers (Frank Waters, Wallace Stegner, Rudolfo Anaya, John Nichols, Joanne Greenberg, Thomas Hornsby Ferril), to the literary situation (Paul Engle, James B. Hall), or to regional topics ( Pikes Peak as inspiration for Katherine Lee Bates’s “America the Beautiful”).

Recent Publications

“ In the Country of the Blind.” Short Story forthcoming in 2009 in War, Literature & the Arts

“Foreword” to Phaedra Greenwood, Beside the Rio Hondo, Santa Fe:Sunstone Press, 2007. Finalist, New Mexico Book Award, 2008.

“Komunyakaa in Colorado,” Callaloo 28:3 (2005) 491-99. Published by the Johns Hopkins University Press.

Callaloo

“The Physicist,” War, Literature & the Arts, 15:1 & 2 (2004) 130-48. Short story nominated for the Pushcart Prize.

“ The Mythology of the Planet” in Rekindling the Inner Light, edited by Barbara Waters with Foreword by Vine Deloria, Jr. Taos: Waters Foundation Press, 2003. On Frank Waters and Teilhard de Chardin.

“Pastoral Emergence” in Sites of Insight, University Press of Colorado, 2003

“Foreword” to Pure Waters: Frank Waters and the Quest for the Cosmic, Swallow Press/ Ohio University Press, 2002

Pure Waters




Alexander Blackburn :: Higher Elevations

Alexander Blackburn :: A Sunrise Brighter Still

Alexander Blackburn :: The Interior Country

Alexander Blackburn :: The Cold War of Kitty Pentecost


Alexander Blackburn :: Myth of the Picaro


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