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Gregory Loselle (born 1963 in Wyandotte, Michigan) is an American poet, playwright and short story writer.

He is the author of two chapbooks of poems, "Phantom Limb" and "Our Parents Dancing" (Puddinghouse Press, 2008 and 2009 respectively), and "New York Times," a play which won the Ruby Lloyd Apsey Playwriting Competition of The University of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama, in 1985, and was subsequently premiered there, as well as various other works.

His first work, a short play titled "Then Again, Maybe I Will," was published in 1981 by The Dramatic Publishing Company and is still in print. His poetry has appeared in literary journals such as The Comstock Review, Oberon, Sow's Ear, The Ledge, Alehouse, and The Ambassador Poetry Project, while his short fiction has been anthologized in The Wordstock Ten (2008) and The 2008 Robert Olen Butler Prize Finalists, as well as appearing in The Georgetown Review and on the web site of Writecorner Press.

The recipient of many literary awards and prizes, including four Hopwood Awards for Creative Writing in 1989 and 1990 (for long fiction, poetry, drama and nonfiction), as well as The Academy of American Poets Award in 1991, both administered by The University of Michigan, he has also won the William van Wert Award from by Hidden River Arts (2007) as well as The Pinch Prize for his poem, "Shelling in the Philippines," in 2009. He was the 2009 winner of The Lorian Hemingway Competition for Short Fiction for his short story "Lazarus."

Loselle earned his undergraduate degree, secondary teaching certification and a Master of Arts in Education at The University of Michigan-Dearborn, where he studied with Gladys Leithauser and William Linn, and a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where he worked with Ethan Canin, Ari Roth, Al Young and Richard Tillinghast. He has taught Creative Writing at the Interlochen Arts Camp, Interlochen, Michigan, where he previously worked between 1981 and 1998.

He is a fellow of the National Humanities Center, and has also studied at The University of Maryland, The University of Virginia, The State University of New York at Binghamton, The Commonwealth University of Virginia and Duke, through grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities. He has published critical articles on Cervantes' "Don Quixote" and The Redland Club of Charlottesville, Virginia, in connection with these studies.

He has exhibited works of visual art at The Biddle Gallery in Wyandotte, Michigan and at the C-Pop Gallery in Detroit, Michigan.

He is a member of the faculty of Grosse Ile High School, Grosse Ile, MIchigan, where he teaches Language Arts and Art History.