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Associate Professor
Ralph James Savarese is the author of Reasonable People: A Memoir of Autism and Adoption, which Newsweek described as a "real life love story and an urgent manifesto for the rights of people with neurological disabilities." In its first month of publication, Reasonable People was chosen "book of the month" by the Autism Acceptance Project in Toronto, CA, and it recently won the Independent Publishers Gold Medal in Health/Medicine/Nutrition. His poems, essays, articles, translations, and opinion pieces have appeared, among other places, in American Poetry Review, Sewanee Review, Southwest Review, Southern Poetry Review, Seneca Review, Southern Humanities Review, Edge City Review, New England Review, Graham House Review, Flyway, Cream City Review, Another Chicago Magazine, For New Orleans and Other Poems, Stone Canoe, Beloit Poetry Journal, Poet Lore, The Poker, Modern Poetry In Translation, Poetry International, Prose Studies, Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies, Autism Perspectives,
Politics & Culture, Disability Studies Quarterly, the New York Times, the LA Times, the Baltimore Sun, the Atlanta Constitution Journal, the Houston Chronicle, the Dallas Morning News, the Cincinnati Post, the Huffington Post, and the Gainesville Sun. He recently discussed his new book on "The Diane Rehm Show" (National Public Radio), "The Exchange" (Iowa Public Radio), "Live at Prairie Lights" (Iowa Public Radio), WNBC in New York, and NECN in Boston. The book was featured on ABC's "Nightly News with Charles Gibson" and CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360," where he and his son were interviewed by Dr. Sanjay Gupta. He is the 2003 winner of the Hennig Cohen Prize from the Herman Melville Society for an "outstanding contribution to Melville scholarship," and the first chapter of Reasonable People received a "notable essay" designation in the Best American Essays series of 2004. He teaches American literature, creative writing, and
disability studies at Grinnell College. His current projects include editing a special issue of Disability Studies Quarterly on autism, a special issue of Seneca Review (with Steve Kuusisto) on writers and human difference, a book on neuropoetics, a book on Herman Melville and disability, and a memoir and poetry project called Republican Fathers.
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