George Looney has published eleven books of poetry (three of which won national awards, and four others which were finalists for national awards) and two poetry chapbooks, as well as four award-winning collections of fiction. His books have won the BOA Editions Short Fiction Award, The Elixir Press Fiction Award (and the Elixir Press Fiction Chapbook Award), the Leapfrog Press Fiction Award, the Red Mountain Press Poetry Award, the White Pine Press Poetry Award, and the Bluestem Award for Poetry, and his poetry has also won a number of other awards, including the Larry Levis Editors’ Award in Poetry from The Missouri Review as well as prizes from Zone 3, New Letters, The Literary Review, and Flyway: A Literary Review.
