Old Bed

Brenda Shaughnessy was born in Okinawa, Japan, in 1970 and grew up in Southern California. She earned her BA in literature and women’s studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and her MFA at Columbia University. She is the author of Interior with Sudden Joy and Human Dark with Sugar (Copper Canyon Press, 2008), which won the James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets. Shaughnessy teaches creative writing at Princeton University and at the New School. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and son.