Education
San Diego State University. University of Utah.
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Sherod Santos
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His newest poetry collection, The Square Inch Hours (World War Norton) is forthcoming in 2016. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Nation, Poetry, The Royal Court Theatre, Proscenium Theatre Journal, American Poetry Review, and The New York Times Book Review. His plays have been produced at the Algonquin Theatre in New York City, The Side Project in Chicago, The Brooklyn International Theatre Festival, and the Flint Michigan Play Festival.
From 1990 to 1998 he served as external examiner and poet-in-residence at the Poets" House outside Belfast, Northern Ireland.
He lives in Chicago, Illinois.
Achievements
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2006 Umhoefer Prize for Achievement in the Humanities for Greek Lyric Poetry: A New Translation 2002 Theodore Roethke Poetry Prize for The Pilot Star Elegies 2001 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism Finalist for A Poetry of Two Minds 2000 National Book Award Finalist 1999 Academy Award for Literary Excellence from the American Academy of Arts & Letters 1999 The New Yorker Book Award in Poetry Finalist 1998 Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry from the Paris Review for "Elegy for My Sister" 1987 National Endowment for the Arts fellowship 1995 British Arts Council International Travel Grant 1984 The Robert Frost Place poet in residence in Franconia, New Hampshire 1983 Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award 1983 Guggenheim Fellowship 1982 Ingram Merrill Foundation fellowship 1981 Oscar Blumenthal Prize from Poetry magazine 1980 Pushcart Prize in both poetry and the essay 1978 "Discovery"/The Nation Award.
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Born
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Nationality
United States
Awards
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Guggenheim Fellowship Pushcart Prize; Blumenthal Prize; Academy award; National Book Award; the Theodore Roethke Memorial Prize; Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry; National Book Critics Circle Award
The Prix Blumenthal was a grant or stipend awarded through the philanthropy of Florence Meyer Blumenthal (1875–1930) — and the foundation she created, Fondation franco-américaine Florence Blumenthal — to discover young French artists, aid them financially, and in the process draw the United States and France closer together through the arts.; The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize by Pushcart Press that honors the best 'poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot' published in the small presses over the previous year.The Prix Blumenthal was a grant or stipend awarded through the philanthropy of Florence Meyer Blumenthal (1875–1930) — and the foundation she created, Fondation franco-américaine Florence Blumenthal — to discover young French artists, aid them financially, and in the process draw the United States and France closer together through the arts.; The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize by Pushcart Press that honors the best 'poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot' published in the small presses over the previous year.