Biography
A graduate of the University of Iowa Writer’s Workshop, Hugh Coyle worked for many years at Middlebury College’s Bread Loaf School of English and Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. His writing has earned a Pushcart Prize, a fellowship at the Camargo Foundation in France, a Vermont Arts Council grant, multiple scholarships at the Vermont Studio Center, a Vice Versa Gay Press award for journalism, and a Heekin award. His publications include Ploughshares, New England Review, The Boston Review, Green Mountains Review, Scribner’s American Writers series, The Café Review, Art & Understanding, and Christopher Street. In 2018 he served as a judge for the Vermont Book Award. Coyle recently attended Middlebury College’s German Language Schools as a Kathryn Wasserman Davis International Peace Fellow. He has twice been invited to the Peace Palace in The Hague, Netherlands, to present research from his latest project, the historical novel Peace at Last.