Brenda Shaughnessy

Brenda Shaughnessy
Born 1970
Okinawa, Japan
Language English
Nationality American
Alma mater University of California, Santa Cruz
Columbia University

Brenda Shaughnessy (born in Okinawa, 1970) is an American poet.

Life

She 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,[1] Conjunctions, McSweeney’s, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Yale Review, and elsewhere. Our Andromeda[2] (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[3] as well as being shortlisted for both the 2013 PEN/Open Book Award[4] and the 2013 International Griffin Poetry Prize. Her most recent book of poetry, So Much Synth, was published in 2016 by Copper Canyon Press.[5]

She is the poetry editor-at-large at Tin House magazine,[6] 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.

Awards

Work

Poetry Books

Anthologies

References

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