2000 FHR Nonfiction Winner

Greg German

Greg German most recently was a co-coordinator for the first annual Kansas City Story Telling Celebration, a three day, metropolitan wide event sponsored by Maple Woods Community College, Kansas City, Missouri. The past two years he has also successfully coordinated the first and second annual Kansas City Writer's Workshop, hosted by Maple Woods.  He has five years experience as a secondary English teacher and assistant basketball coach at Junction City High School, Junction City, Kansas.

Once a farmer and stockman, Greg German holds an A.S. Degree in Agriculture from Cloud County Community College.  After leaving the agriculture sector, he obtained a B.A. in English/Creative Writing and a B.S. in Education from Kansas State University.   Mr. German, who lives in Kansas City, Kansas, is a husband and father of two sons, ages 18 and 4 years-old.

His work has appeared in numerous literary journals.  Publications include:  Poet Lore, Kansas Quarterly, Americas Review, WIND, Negative Capability, Permafrost, Cottonwood, The Alaska Quarterly, The Hawaii Review, ZONE 3, Potato Eyes, Potpourri, Pudding, The Chiron Review, Wolf Head Quarterly, Avocet, Black Dirt Review, and others.

Currently, Mr. German is nearing completion of a poetry manuscript thematically focused on farming and rural life in Kansas,
and has had poems about the Kansas wheat harvest placed in the achives of the Kansas Historical Society (Library & Archives Division).