Education
He studied as an undergraduate at the University of Virginia and went on to receive his Master of Fine Arts from the Iowa Writers" Workshop.
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Sam Witt
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Born in 1970 in Wimbledon, England, Witt moved to the United States in 1977. Everlasting Quail was published in 2001 by the University Press of New England. Witt went on to spend a year in Russia as a Fulbright Scholar to work on his second book
Witt has taught at the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Iowa, the New England Institute of Art, Saint St. Petersburg State University, the University of Missouri at Kansas City, and as a creative writing lecturer in the English Department of Harvard University.
Books and Sam Witt"s work has been awarded a number of different awards since then, including: the Meridian Editors" Poetry Prize, 2008. The Briar Cliff Review Poetry Prize, 2008 for "Occupation: Dreamland;" and the Cultural Center of Cape Cod National Poetry Award, for "Dirge for the White Birds.
Achievements
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Sam Witt"s first book, Everlasting Quail, was selected by judge Carol Frost for the Katharine Bakeless Nason Poetry Prize given by the Bread Loaf Writers" Conference run by Middlebury College. Witt won the Dana Award for poetry in 2005.." Most recently, "The Overburden in Hawktime" was chosen by poet Nicky Beer as the winner of the 2012 Pinch Literary Award for Poetry.
Membership
He was most recently a member of the faculty at Whitman College.
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