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= Doug Ramspeck = Doug Sutton-Ramspeck is an American author, poet, and educator. He has been honored with many awards over the course of his career, including the 2016 G. S. Sharat Chandra Prize for Short Fiction and the 2013 Michael Waters Poetry Prize.

Education and career
Doug attended Kenyon College, graduating with his bachelor's of English in 1976. He continued his education at the University of California, Irvine, graduating with his MFA in Creative Writing in 1978. Doug went on to teach at The Ohio State University's College of Arts and Sciences, eventually becoming a Professor Emeritus.

Doug is the author of nine collections of poetry, one collection of short stories, and one novella. He has also published hundreds of poems to literary journals including The Kenyon Review, The Georgia Review, TriQuarterly, The Southern Review, and The Missouri Review. His short fiction has appeared in Southwest Review, The Iowa Review, Narrative, and The Cincinnati Review, among many others. Doug's work is praised as meditative and beautiful storytelling, creating flawed and sympathetic characters through an unflinching narrative of unspoken traumas, such as in his book The Owl That Carries Us Away. He is a three-time recipient of an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award.

Currently a retired professor from The Ohio State University, Doug continues to write and publish his works.

Personal life
Doug is married to his wife, Beth Sutton-Ramspeck, a Victorianist and Harry Potter scholar. He has a grown daughter, Lee, who teaches for a Montessori public school in Charlotte, North Carolina. Other members of the household include their dog, Siri, and their cat, Reggie, both of whom were named after characters from the Harry Potter series. Doug's family lives in Black Mountain, North Carolina.

Collections of Poetry

 * Black Tupelo Country (BkMk Press, 2008)
 * Where We Come From (Main Street Rag, 2008)
 * Possum Nocturne (NorthShore Press, 2010)
 * Mechanical Fireflies (Barrow Street Press, 2011)
 * Original Bodies (Southern Indiana Review Press, 2014)
 * Black Flowers (LSU Press, 2018)
 * Distant Fires (Grayson Press, 2020)
 * Book of Years (Cloudbank Books, 2021)
 * Blur (The Word Works, 2023)

Collections of Short Fiction

 * The Owl That Carries Us Away (BkMk Press, 2018)

Novellas

 * Under Black Leaves (Etchings Press, 2020)

Anthologies

 * Snow Crow (Ad Hoc Fiction, 2022)

Awards and honors

 * 2007 John Ciardi Prize for Poetry for Black Tupelo Country
 * 2010 Barrow Street Prize for Mechanical Fireflies
 * 2013 Michael Waters Poetry Prize for Original Bodies
 * 2016 G. S. Sharat Chandra Prize for Short Fiction for The Owl That Carries Us Away
 * 2016 McGinnis-Ritchie Award for Fiction
 * 2019 Grayson Books Poetry Prize for Distant Fires
 * 2019 UNT Rilke Finalist for Black Flowers
 * 2020 Etchings Press Novella Prize for Under Black Leaves
 * 2020 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award for Fiction
 * 2021 Tenth Gate Prize for Blur
 * 2021 Bath Flash Fiction Award for Snow Crow