Julie Sheehan
Encyclopedia
Life
She graduated from Yale UniversityYale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
, and Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
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She lives on Long Island, New York, with her son, and is currently an assistant professor at Stony Brook Southampton.
Her work has appeared in Ploughshares, Paris Review, Southwest Review, Texas Review and Western Humanities Review.
Awards
- 2009 New York Foundation for the ArtsNew York Foundation for the ArtsThe New York Foundation for the Arts was created in conjunction the in 1971. The organization gives grants to individual artists and writers and developing arts organizations with a mission to '.'-NYFA's Programs:...
fellowship in poetry - 2008 Whiting Writers Award
- 2005 Barnard Women Poets PrizeBarnard Women Poets PrizeThe Barnard Women Poets Prize is a major American literary award for a book of poetry in the English language.From 1986-1999 the prize was called the Barnard New Women Poets Prize...
- Bernard F. Conners Prize for Poetry, Paris Review
- Robert H. Winner Memorial Award, Poetry Society of AmericaPoetry Society of AmericaThe Poetry Society of America is a literary organization founded in 1910 by poets, editors, and artists including Witter Bynner. It is the oldest poetry organization in the United States. Past members of the have included such renowned writers as Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Edna St. Vincent...
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Works
External links
- 'A Review of Julie Sheehan’s "Bar Book"', Fogged Clarity, Scott Hightower