Ira Sadoff

Ira Sadoff is an award winning and widely anthologized poet, novelist, and short story writer.

Life

Sadoff was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Russian Jewish immigrants. He earned a B.A. (1966) from Cornell University in industrial and labor relations and an M.F.A. (1968) from the University of Oregon. He has taught at colleges and universities including the University of Virginia and at the Iowa Writer's Workshop. He is currently the Arthur Jeremiah Roberts Professor of Literature at Colby College in Waterville, Maine and teaches at the M.F.A. program at Warren Wilson College.

Work

Sadoff is the author of seven volumes of poetry, most recently [http://www.press.uillinois.edu/s03/sadoff.html "Barter"] (2003) and [http://www.press.uillinois.edu/f98/sadoff.html "Grazing"] (1998). Over three hundred of his poems and thirty short stories have appeared in major literary magazines, including "The New Yorker", "The American Poetry Review", "The Paris Review", "The Nation", "The New Republic", "Esquire", "Antaeus", "The Hudson Review", and "The Partisan Review". Poems in "Grazing" have been awarded the Leonard Shestack Prize, the Pushcart Poetry Prize, and the George Bogin Memorial Prize from the Poetry Society of America. He has received Fellowships from the He has received Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He has characterized himself as "one poet among a decreasing minority who is trying to resist the return to formalism, the sterile, conservative, aesthete academicism of the nineteen-fifties."

Bibliography

Poetry:

Books:

*Cite book|title=An Ira Sadoff Reader: A collection of stories, poems, essays |year=1992
*Cite book|title=Uncouplng |year=1982

External links

* [http://www.colby.edu/personal/i/isadoff Ira Sadoff]

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