Language English Spouse Craig Morgan Teicher Role Poet | Name Brenda Shaughnessy Nationality American | |
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Alma mater University of California, Santa CruzColumbia University Awards James Laughlin Award, Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada Nominations National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry Books Our Andromeda, Human Dark with Sugar, Interior with Sudden Joy | ||
A poetry reading with brenda shaughnessy
Brenda Shaughnessy (born 1970) is an American poet.
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- A poetry reading with brenda shaughnessy
- Donhf 4 brenda shaughnessy reads 2 poems
- Life
- Awards
- Work
- Poetry Books
- Anthologies
- References
Donhf 4 brenda shaughnessy reads 2 poems
Life
Shaughnessy was born in Okinawa and grew up in Southern California. She received her BA in literature and women's studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz and MFA at Columbia University.
Her poems have appeared in Best American Poetry, BOMB, Conjunctions, McSweeney’s, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Yale Review, and elsewhere. Our Andromeda (Copper Canyon Press, 2012) was selected as a Library Journal "Book of the Year" and as one of the "100 Best Books of 2013" by The New York Times as well as being shortlisted for both the 2013 PEN/Open Book Award and the 2013 International Griffin Poetry Prize. Her most recent book of poetry, So Much Synth, was published in 2016 by Copper Canyon Press.
She is the poetry editor-at-large at Tin House magazine, and is Assistant Professor of English and MFA Program at Rutgers–Newark. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband, poet Craig Morgan Teicher, and their son and daughter. She currently teaches at New York University among others.
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