Education
And Doctor of Philosophy in Comparative Literature from University of California, Los Los Angeles Between 1975 and 1978, he was a Junior Fellow with the Society of Fellows at Harvard University.
And Doctor of Philosophy in Comparative Literature from University of California, Los Los Angeles Between 1975 and 1978, he was a Junior Fellow with the Society of Fellows at Harvard University.
Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sternberg moved to the United States with his family when he was fifteen. He received a Bachelor of Arts in English literature from the University of California, Riverside and an Master of Arts His poetry has been published in magazines such as The Paris Review, The Nation, Poetry (Chicago), Descant, American Poetry Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review and Ploughshares., He has lived in Toronto, Canada since 1979 teaching Brazilian and Portuguese Literature at the University of Toronto. He is the author of four books
Blindsight, a Civil Defense of his readings, was released in 1998 by Cyclops Press.