Brenda Shaughnessy

Brenda Shaughnessy (born 1970) is an American poet.

Brenda Shaughnessy
Shaughnessy at the 2019 Texas Book Festival
Born1970
Okinawa, Japan
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of California, Santa Cruz
Columbia University

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,[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. So Much Synth, was published in 2016 by Copper Canyon Press.[5] Her fifth book of poems, The Octopus Museum, was published by Knopf in 2019.

She is Associate Professor of English and MFA Program at Rutgers–Newark. She lives in Verona, New Jersey.

Awards
  • 2018 Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
  • Our Andromeda, shortlisted for the 2013 International Griffin Poetry Prize and the 2013 PEN/Open Book Award.[4]
  • Human Dark with Sugar, winner of the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets, finalist for National Book Critics Circle award[6]
  • Interior with Sudden Joy, which was nominated for the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry, a Lambda Literary Award, and the Norma Farber First Book Award.
  • Bunting Fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University
  • Japan/U.S. Friendship Commission Artist Fellowship.

Work
  • "I'm Over the Moon". poets.org. The New School, Tishman Auditorium. October 19, 2007.
  • "Why is the Color of Snow?". poets.org.
  • "What's Uncanny; Fortune; Mistress Formika; Project for a Fainting". The Boston Review. December 1998 – January 1999. Archived from the original on 2009-07-12. Retrieved 2009-05-27.
  • "Me in Paradise". Nerve. July 2000.
  • "Dear Gonglya; Your One Good Dress". Salon.
  • "Epithalament", Fort.org

Poetry Books

Anthologies
  • David Lehman, ed. (2008). "Voluptuary". The Best American Erotic Poems. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4165-3746-5.
  • Michael Dumanis; Mark Doty; Cate Marvin, eds. (2006). Legitimate dangers: American poets of the new century. Sarabande Books. ISBN 978-1-932511-29-1.
  • Rita Dove; Robert Bly; David Lehman, eds. (2000). The Best American Poetry 2000. Scribner. ISBN 978-0-684-84281-3.
  • Victoria M. Chang, ed. (2004). Asian American poetry: the next generation. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-07174-4.
  • Brenda Shaughnessy, ed. (2008). Satellite Convulsions: Poems from Tin House. Tin House Books. ISBN 978-0-9794198-9-8.

References
  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-07-08. Retrieved 2009-05-27.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. "Our Andromeda by Brenda Shaughnessy".
  3. "100 Notable Books of 2013". The New York Times. November 27, 2013.
  4. "PEN Open Book Award". June 10, 2020.
  5. "So Much Synth by Brenda Shaughnessy".
  6. Viva Staff (January 26, 2009). "Roberto Bolaño finalist for National Book Critics Circle award". The New York Daily NEws.
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