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Joseph Heithaus |
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Poet, Professor, DePauw University |
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BACKGROUND |
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Joseph Heithaus was born in South Bend, Indiana, the youngest of six children. As his father worked his way up the ranks of the sales division of Chevrolet, General Motors, the family was transferred to his mother and father’s hometown of Cincinnati, Ohio, then Richmond, Virginia, and finally Syracuse, New York. He earned his B.A. from the State University of New York at Albany, lived and worked in New York City for a few years before attending Indiana University where he earned an M.F.A. in poetry and a Ph.D. in American Literature. He has taught at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana since 1996. He and his wife, Jenny, have four children who range in age from 22 to 10.
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