Background
She grew up in Southern California.
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Brenda Shaughnessy
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She received her Bachelor in literature and women"s studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz and Master of Fine Arts at Columbia University. She is the poetry editor-at-large at Tin House magazine, and is Assistant Professor of English and Master of Fine Arts Program at Rutgers–Newark.
Career
Her poems have appeared in Best American Poetry, BOMB, Conjunctions, McSweeney’s, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Yale Review, and elsewhere. She currently teaches at New York University among others
Achievements
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Our Andromeda, shortlisted for the 2013 International Griffin Poetry Prize and the 2013 Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association/Open Book Award. Human Dark with Sugar, winner of the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets, finalist for National Book Critics Circle award Interior with Sudden Joy, which was nominated for the Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association/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/United States. Friendship Commission Artist Fellowship.
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United States
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Awards
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PEN/Open Book Award; Lambda Literary Award; James Laughlin Award; Norma Farber First Book Award; Griffin Poetry Prize Our Andromeda, shortlisted for the 2013 International Griffin Poetry Prize and the 2013 PEN/Open Book Award. Human Dark with Sugar, winner of the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets, finalist for National Book Critics Circle award 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. The Griffin Poetry Prize is Canada's most generous poetry award.; Lambda Literary (also known as the 'Lammys') are awarded yearly by the US-based Lambda Literary Foundation to published works which celebrate or explore LGBT themes.; PEN/Open Book (known as the Beyond Margins Award through 2009) is a program intended to foster racial and ethnic diversity within the literary and publishing communities, and works to establish access for diverse literary groups to the publishing industry.; The James Laughlin Award, formerly the Lamont Poetry Prize, is given annually for a poet's second published book; it is the only major poetry award that honors a second book.PEN/Open Book Award; Lambda Literary Award; James Laughlin Award; Norma Farber First Book Award; Griffin Poetry Prize Our Andromeda, shortlisted for the 2013 International Griffin Poetry Prize and the 2013 PEN/Open Book Award. Human Dark with Sugar, winner of the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets, finalist for National Book Critics Circle award 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. The Griffin Poetry Prize is Canada's most generous poetry award.; Lambda Literary (also known as the 'Lammys') are awarded yearly by the US-based Lambda Literary Foundation to published works which celebrate or explore LGBT themes.; PEN/Open Book (known as the Beyond Margins Award through 2009) is a program intended to foster racial and ethnic diversity within the literary and publishing communities, and works to establish access for diverse literary groups to the publishing industry.; The James Laughlin Award, formerly the Lamont Poetry Prize, is given annually for a poet's second published book; it is the only major poetry award that honors a second book.