Brenda Shaughnessy poet from Japan was born in 1970 has 54 years. Poems were written mainly in English language. Dominant movement is other.
Biography
Brenda Shaughnessy (b. 1970 Okinawa, Japan) is an American poet.. American poet
She grew up in Southern California. She received her B.A. in literature and women's studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz and M.F.A. 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) is her most recent book of poetry and was selected as a Library Journal "Book of the Year" and shortlisted for both the 2013 PEN/Open Book Award and the 2013 International Griffin Poetry Prize.
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, NY with her husband, poet Craig Morgan Teicher, and their son and daughter.
