Dan Gerber

Dan Gerber was born and grew up in western Michigan and received his bachelor's degree from Michigan State University in 1962. He has worked as a corporate executive, an automobile dealer, a professional racing driver, and a high school teacher. From 1968 through 1972, with Jim Harrison, he co-edited the literary magazine Sumac. He has traveled extensively as a journalist, particularly in Africa. He has been writer-in-residence at Michigan State University and Grand Valley State College and has lectured, read, and taught at numerous colleges, universities, libraries, schools, and museums throughout the United States and England. He and his wife, Debbie, divide their year between central California and southeastern Idaho.

Dan Gerber has published three novels, a short-story collection and six books of poems, including A Last Bridge Home; New Selected Poems and Trying to Catch the Horses. He was the recipient of the Michigan Author Award in 1992, had work selected for inclusion in Best American Poetry 1999, and received the Mark Twain Award for Distinguished Contributions to Midwestern Literature in 2001.



Awards won by Dan Gerber:

2002 Independent Publishers' Association
Honorable Mention
(for Second Life, A)


2001 Society for Midwestern Literature
The Mark Twain Award for Distinguished Contributions to Midwestern Literature
(for Second Life, A)


2000 ForeWord Magazine
Book of the Year, Gold Award
(for Trying to Catch the Horses)


Available from Michigan State University Press, by Dan Gerber:

Trying to Catch the Horses Trying to Catch the Horses
Dan Gerber 
Second Life, A Second Life, A
Dan Gerber 
Grass Fires Grass Fires
Dan Gerber 
American Atlas American Atlas
Dan Gerber 
Voice from the River, A Voice from the River, A
Dan Gerber 
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