Ohioana Nonfiction Book Award: 2005
Paul Zimmer for Trains in the Distance
Kent State University Press 2003
Another nonfiction book award was presented to Julie Salamon
 Paul Zimmer,
born in Canton, Ohio, has successfully combined lifelong careers in
both poetry and publishing. The author of 12 books of
poetry - the most recent being Crossing to Sunlight: Selected Poems - he also has
served as director of the University of Pittsburgh Press, the University of Georgia Press,
and the University of Iowa Press.
In addition, he has authored two books of prose, After the Fire: A Writer Finds
His Place and Trains in the Distance. Zimmer has been the recipient of
numerous honors, among them two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts,
three Pushcart Prizes and the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Award
for Literature.
He and his wife currently divide their time between a farm in Wisconsin and a place in the south of France.
Trains in the Distance: Kent State
University Press website
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