Brenda Shaughnessy

Lecturer in Creative Writing in the Lewis Center for the Arts

Brenda Shaughnessy was born in Okinawa, Japan and raised in Southern California. She is the Poetry Editor of Tin House Magazine and Tin House Books, and lives in Brooklyn with her husband and son. Her poems have been published in Bomb, Boston Review, Colorado Review, Conjunctions, McSweeney’s, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Yale Review and elsewhere. Her publications include: Interior with Sudden Joy (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1999, finalist for the Norma Farber First Book Award, PEN/Joyce C. Osterweil Award and Lambda Literary Award (2000)) and Human Dark with Sugar (Copper Canyon Press, 2008). She has received fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study, the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission, the Greenwall Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, and Yaddo.