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Brenda Shaughnessy

  • 2000–2001
  • Bunting Program
  • Independent Writer

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Poet Brenda Shaughnessy was born in Okinawa, Japan, and was raised in Southern California. She received her BA in literature and women’s studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and she earned an MFA at Columbia University’s Writing Division. Her first book, Interior with Sudden Joy, was published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in June 1999. The book was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award and was a finalist for the PEN/Joyce C. Osterweil Award and the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award. She was selected in 1999 by the Village Voice as one of the “Writers on the Verge.” In addition, she received an Emerging Artist’s award from The Greenwall Foundation and NYU’s International Center for Advanced Studies. Shaughnessy is a recipient of a Creative Artist’s Fellowship from the Japan/US Friendship Commission for 2001–2002.

Her poems have appeared in The Paris Review, Yale Review, Boston Review, Chelsea, Conjunctions, Best American Poetry 2000, and elsewhere.

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