Brenda Shaughnessy was born in Okinawa, Japan, in 1970 and grew up in Southern California. She is the author of three poetry collections, Interior with Sudden Joy; Human Dark with Sugar, which won the James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and Our Andromeda (Copper Canyon Press, 2012). Shaughnessy is an assistant professor of English at Rutgers–Newark, and lives in Brooklyn with her husband and their two children.
WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:
- All Possible Pain, poetry, in Poems of the Week: 2012–2013
- Drift, poetry, in Poems of the Week: 2010–2011
- Old Bed, poetry, in Poems of the Week: 2008–2009