Bloodaxe Books | Brenda Shaughnessy: Liquid Flesh (at Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts) @BloodaxeBooks | Uploaded August 2023 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
Brenda Shaughnessy is an Okinawan-Irish American poet who grew up in Southern California. After graduating from University of California, Santa Cruz, she moved to New York City where she received an MFA in Poetry from Columbia University and published her first book, Interior with Sudden Joy (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). Her six full-length collections include The Octopus Museum (Knopf, 2019), a New York Times Notable Book, and Our Andromeda (Copper Canyon, 2012), a finalist for the Griffin International Prize, the PEN/Open Book Award, and the Kingsley Tufts Prize. Recipient of a 2018 Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a 2013 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, she is Professor of English at Rutgers University-Newark. She lives with her husband, the poet Craig Morgan Teicher, and their two children, in New Jersey.
Brenda Shaughnessy's first UK publication, Liquid Flesh: New & Selected Poems, was published by Bloodaxe in 2022. (bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/liquid-flesh-1303) At this reading at Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts in October 2022, Brenda read poems from Liquid Flesh and spoke about her work with Bloodaxe Books editor Neil Astley.
Her sixth collection, Tanya, was published by Knopf in the US in 2023 and is due from Bloodaxe in April 2024. (bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/tanya-1346)
Brenda Shaughnessy is an Okinawan-Irish American poet who grew up in Southern California. After graduating from University of California, Santa Cruz, she moved to New York City where she received an MFA in Poetry from Columbia University and published her first book, Interior with Sudden Joy (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). Her six full-length collections include The Octopus Museum (Knopf, 2019), a New York Times Notable Book, and Our Andromeda (Copper Canyon, 2012), a finalist for the Griffin International Prize, the PEN/Open Book Award, and the Kingsley Tufts Prize. Recipient of a 2018 Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a 2013 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, she is Professor of English at Rutgers University-Newark. She lives with her husband, the poet Craig Morgan Teicher, and their two children, in New Jersey.
Brenda Shaughnessy's first UK publication, Liquid Flesh: New & Selected Poems, was published by Bloodaxe in 2022. (bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/liquid-flesh-1303) At this reading at Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts in October 2022, Brenda read poems from Liquid Flesh and spoke about her work with Bloodaxe Books editor Neil Astley.
Her sixth collection, Tanya, was published by Knopf in the US in 2023 and is due from Bloodaxe in April 2024. (bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/tanya-1346)
