Julie Sheehan

Julie Sheehan
Julie Sheehan with Bar Book, at PS7, 777 I Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.
Born	Julie Sheehan Iowa, U.S.
Education	Yale University Columbia University
Known for	Poetry

Julie Sheehan (born in Iowa) is an American poet.

Life

She graduated from Yale University, and Columbia University.

She lives in Long Island, New York, with her son, and is currently Director of the MFA in Creative Writing & Literature program as well as an assistant professor at Stony Brook Southampton.

Her work has appeared in Ploughshares,^[1] Paris Review,^[2][3] Southwest Review,^[4] Texas Review and Western Humanities Review.^[5]

Awards

• 2009 New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship in poetry
• 2008 Whiting Award
• 2005 Barnard Women Poets Prize
• Bernard F. Conners Prize for Poetry, Paris Review
• Robert H. Winner Memorial Award, Poetry Society of America.
• Poets Out Loud Prize

Works

• "Dependent Clause", Huffington Post
• "Ash Grove of Ash", Drunken boat
• "104°". Ploughshares. Winter 2000. Archived from the original on November 4, 2007.
• Thaw. Fordham Univ Press. 2001. ISBN 978-0-8232-2169-1.
• Orient Point. W.W. Norton & Co. 2007. ISBN 978-0-393-33035-9.
• Bar Book: Poems and Otherwise. W. W. Norton & Company. 2010. ISBN 978-0-393-07217-4.

Anthologies

• Paul Muldoon; David Lehman, eds. (2008). "Hate Poem". The best American poetry, 2005. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-7432-5738-1.

References

1. "Read by Author | Ploughshares".
2. "The Paris Review - Fall 2003". Archived from the original on 2009-07-08. Retrieved 2009-08-03.
3. "The Paris Review - Fall 2000". Archived from the original on 2009-08-16. Retrieved 2009-08-03.
4. "Awards - Southwest Review - SMU". Archived from the original on 2009-06-04. Retrieved 2009-08-03.
5. "Drunken Boat | Julie Sheehan". www.drunkenboat.com. Archived from the original on 2001-12-25.

External links

• Profile at The Whiting Foundation
• 'A Review of Julie Sheehan’s "Bar Book"', Fogged Clarity, Scott Hightower