Shawn Sturgeon

Shawn Sturgeon (born 1965) is a poet and professor. He was educated at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and did postgraduate work in English at the University of North Texas (MA) and the University of Cincinnati (PhD). His first collection of poems, "Either/Ur", was a finalist for The Paris Review Prize (2001) [1] and was published by River City Publishing in 2002, with an introduction by Richard Howard. His work has appeared in The New Republic, The Paris Review, Western Humanities Review, Witness, Pleiades, Willow Springs and StoryQuarterly. Shawn Sturgeon has held numerous fellowships: as a Charles Phelps Taft Fellow he studied Mexican Literature and Culture while living in Mexico, and he has been a Tennessee Williams Scholar and Walter Dakin Fellow at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. He has taught at the University of Cincinnati, the Art Academy of Cincinnati, and Emory University. He currently lives in Pristina, Kosovo.

Bibliography

"Either/Ur" (River City Publishing, 2002).

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