American poet (born 1970)
Brenda Shaughnessy (born 1970) is an Asian American poet most known for her poetry books "Our Andromeda" and "So Much Synth". Her book, "Our Andromeda", was named a Library Journal "Book of the Year," one of "The New York Times's" "100 Best Books of 2013." Additionally, "The New York Times" and "Publishers Weekly" named "So Much Synth" as one of the best poetry collections of 2016. Shaughnessy works as an Associate Professor of English in the MFA Creative Writing program at Rutgers University–Newark.
Life.
Shaughnessy was born in Okinawa and grew up in Southern California. She received her BA in literature and women's studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz and MFA 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" (2012) was selected as a "Library Journal" "Book of the Year" and as one of the "100 Best Books of 2013" by The New York Times as well as being shortlisted for both the 2013 PEN/Open Book Award and the 2013 International Griffin Poetry Prize. "So Much Synth" was published in 2016 by Copper Canyon Press and was named one of the best poetry collections of 2016 by the New York Times and Publishers Weekly. Her fifth book of poems, "The Octopus Museum", was published by Knopf in 2019.
She is an Associate Professor of English in the MFA Program at Rutgers-Newark. She lives in Verona, New Jersey with her husband, the poet and editor Craig Morgan Teicher, and their children.
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