Brenda Shaughnessy
Brenda Shaughnessy is the author of two books of poems:
Interior with Sudden Joy and Human Dark with Sugar,
which won the 2007 James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets.
Her poems have been published in Bomb, Conjunctions, McSweeney’s, The New
Yorker, The Paris Review, The Yale Review, and elsewhere. She has received
fellowships from The Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study at Harvard University,
The Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission, the Greenwall Foundation, the MacDowell
Colony, and Yaddo. She is the Poetry Editor of Tin House Magazine and Tin House
Books and currently teaches at Princeton
University and NYU. She lives in Brooklyn
with her husband and son.
