Louis E. Bourgeois

Louis Bourgeois was born in New Orleans, Louisiana and raised in the Slidell/LaCombe area, as well as East New Orleans on Bayou Sauvage. Louis has published translations, fiction, memoirs, poetry and interviews in over two hundred magazines and journals in North America, Europe and Asia.

In 2004 Bourgeois was the winner of the University of Milwaukee's Cream City Review's poetry contest. Other awards include, The Robert Penn Warren Award, the Common Ground Review's poetry award, an Excellence Award from the Dana Literary Society, three Editor's Choice Awards, seven Pushcart nominations, as well as an artist grant from the Mississippi Arts Commission.

Bourgeois' books include, Through The Cemetery Gates, The Distance of Ducks, The Animal, Cora Falling Off the Face of the Earth, White Night, Fragments of a Life Thirty-two Years Gone, and OLGA.

In 1996 , Louis Bourgeois graduated from Louisiana State University with a BA in English. In 2002 he was the first graduate of The University of Mississippi's MFA program in creative writing. He is co-founder and editor of VOX, an independent experimental literary journal based in Oxford, Mississippi.

Visit Louis at: http://voxpress.org