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Biography:
Anthony Bukoski was born in the East End of Superior, Wisconsin, attended St. Adalbert’s Grade School, and began his undergraduate work at Wisconsin State University Superior. He left after a year, joined the Marines in the summer of 1964, and went to Vietnam. He returned three years later and finished school. Next it was on to Brown University for an MA in English, then to Iowa for an MFA in fiction from the Writer’s Workshop in 1976, and a PhD in English in 1984. For the greater part of his career and until his retirement, Bukoski was a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Superior. He also served as a marine at DaNang, South Vietnam. He has been a car wash attendant, short order cook, camp counselor and janitor. He has salvaged bauxite from derailed tank cars and worked in the complaint department at Sears. He received the Oskar Halecki Prize from the Polish American Historical Association and a three-time nominee for the Pushcart prize. In 1997, he was featured in the PBS video A Sense of Place: A Portrait of Three Midwestern Writers.
His father, an accordion player and laborer in a flourmill, had once been a merchant seaman on the Great Lakes and ocean. His influence is evident in many of the younger Bukoski’s Polish-American stories. (The accordion, a Scandalli Imperio VII, now reposes in The Accordion Hall of Fame in Superior.)
(From http://wewantedtobewriters.com/our-authors/anthony-bukoski/)
Works by Anthony Bukoski:
Short story collections:
Anthony Bukoski was born in the East End of Superior, Wisconsin, attended St. Adalbert’s Grade School, and began his undergraduate work at Wisconsin State University Superior. He left after a year, joined the Marines in the summer of 1964, and went to Vietnam. He returned three years later and finished school. Next it was on to Brown University for an MA in English, then to Iowa for an MFA in fiction from the Writer’s Workshop in 1976, and a PhD in English in 1984. For the greater part of his career and until his retirement, Bukoski was a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Superior. He also served as a marine at DaNang, South Vietnam. He has been a car wash attendant, short order cook, camp counselor and janitor. He has salvaged bauxite from derailed tank cars and worked in the complaint department at Sears. He received the Oskar Halecki Prize from the Polish American Historical Association and a three-time nominee for the Pushcart prize. In 1997, he was featured in the PBS video A Sense of Place: A Portrait of Three Midwestern Writers.
His father, an accordion player and laborer in a flourmill, had once been a merchant seaman on the Great Lakes and ocean. His influence is evident in many of the younger Bukoski’s Polish-American stories. (The accordion, a Scandalli Imperio VII, now reposes in The Accordion Hall of Fame in Superior.)
(From http://wewantedtobewriters.com/our-authors/anthony-bukoski/)
Works by Anthony Bukoski:
Short story collections:
- North of the Port (Southern Methodist University Press, 2008)
- Time Between Trains (Southern Methodist University Press, 2003)
- Polonaise (Southern Methodist University Press, 1998)
- Children of Strangers (Southern Methodist University Press, 1993)
- Twelve Below Zero (Holy Cow! Press, 1986, 2008)
- Head of the Lakes: Selected Short Stories (2018)
- The Blondes of Wisconsin (2021)
