Laurie Sheck
Laurie Sheck was born in the Bronx, New York. She is the author of four collections of poems--Black Series (forthcoming from Alfred A. Knopf, November 2001); The Willow Grove (1996), which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; Io at Night (1990); and Amaranth (1981)--and has published her poems widely in such magazines as Denver Quarterly, The Iowa Review, The Kenyon Review, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, and Seneca Review. Her poems have also been included in two volumes of Best American Poetry and three volumes of The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses. Her honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New Jersey State Council for the Arts. Laurie Sheck has been a member of the creative writing faculty at Princeton University, and currently teaches in the MFA Program at the New School. She lives in New York City. |
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