Victor Contoski Explained

Victor Contoski (born 1936, Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an American writer and university professor of Polish descent, best known for his science-fiction chess story Von Goom's Gambit, published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, December 1966. He got his Ph.D. in American Literature from the University of Wisconsin - Madison in 1969. In 1980 he edited a book of poetry by poets of Polish ancestry, Blood of Their Blood.^[1] He has published multiple volumes of poetry and taught creative writing and American Literature at the University of Kansas. In 2000, he was recipient of the HOPE Teaching Award,^[2] chosen by students. He is retired and resides in Lawrence, Kansas.

Bibliography

• "Von Goom's Gambit", Chess Review, April 1966, reprinted in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, December 1966.
• Four Contemporary Polish Poets (translations), Quixote, 1967
• Astronomers, Madonnas, and Prophecies (poetry), Juniper, 1972
• Broken Treaties (poetry), New Rivers, 1973
• Planting Beeches (translations of Harasymoxicz), New Rivers, 1975
• Names (poetry), New Rivers, 1979
• Unease (translations of Rozewicz), New Rivers, 1980
• A Kansas Sequence (poetry), Tellus, 1983
• Midwestern Buildings (poetry), Cottonwood, 1997

References

• http://www.kuonlinedirectory.org/endacott/data/OralHistoryTranscripts/Victor%20Contoski.pdf

Notes and References

1. Victor Contoski, Blood of Their Blood: An Anthology of Polish-American Poetry, New Rivers Press, 1980, ASIN: B00420WB8I
2. Web site: H.O.P.E Teaching Award . 14 February 2019 .