Charles Harper Webb



Charles Harper Webb is an American poet, professor, psychotherapist and former singer and guitarist. His most recent poetry collection is Shadow Ball (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009). His honors include a Whiting Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, The Kate Tufts Discovery Award, a Pushcart Prize and inclusion in The Best American Poetry 2006. His poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines including American Poetry Review, Paris Review, and Ploughshares.  Webb was born in Philadelphia, and grew up in Houston. He earned his B.A. in English from Rice University, and an M.A. in English from the University of Washington, and an M.F.A. in Professional Writing and his PhD in Counseling Psychology from the University of Southern California. He teaches at California State University, Long Beach, where he received a Distinguished Faculty Scholarly and Creative Achievement Award and the Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award, and he lives in Long Beach, California.

Honors and awards

 * 2001 Guggenheim Fellowship
 * 1999 Felix Pollack Prize, for Liver
 * 1998 Whiting Writer's Award
 * 1998 Kate Tufts Discovery Award, for Reading the Water
 * 1997 Morse Poetry Prize, for Reading the Water
 * Academy of American Poets Prize

Poetry

 * Zinjanthropus Disease. Querencia Press, 1978.
 * Everyday Outrages. Red Wind Books, 1989.
 * Poetry That Heals. Red Wind Books, 1991.
 * Shadow Ball. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009.
 * Shadow Ball. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009.
 * Shadow Ball. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009.
 * Shadow Ball. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009.
 * Shadow Ball. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009.
 * Shadow Ball. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009.

Edited

 * Stand-Up Poetry: The Poetry of Los Angeles and Beyond. Red Wind Books, 1990.
 * Stand-Up Poetry: The Anthology. Berkeley, CA: California State University Press, 1994.
 * Stand-Up Poetry: An Expanded Anthology. University of Iowa Press, 2002.