Bruce Snider is an American poet originally from rural Indiana, who is an associate professor at the Johns Hopkins University. Previously, he taught at the University of San Francisco, Stanford University, George Washington University, the University of Texas at Austin, and Connecticut College. His poems and essays have appeared in American Poetry Review, Harvard Review, Iowa Review, New England Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, Virginia Quarterly Review, Threepenny Review, Utne Reader, Zyzzyva, and Best American Poetry 2012. With the poet Shara Lessley, Snider co-edited The Poem's Country: Place & Poetic Practice (Pleiades Press), an anthology of essays.
Awards
- Jenny McKean Writer-in-Washington, George Washington University
- Robert Frost Fellow, Bread Loaf Writer's Conference
- Lena-Miles Wever Todd Poetry Prize, Pleaides Press
- Amy Clampitt House Residency
- James Merrill House Residency
- Wallace Stegner Fellowship, Stanford University
- Felix Pollack Prize in Poetry, University of Wisconsin Press
- James A. Michener Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin
Books
- Fruit (University of Wisconsin Press, 2020)
- The Poem’s Country: Place and Poetic Practice (Pleiades Press, 2018) co-editor
- Paradise, Indiana (Pleiades Press, 2013)
- The Year We Studied Women (University of Wisconsin Press, 2003)
Education
References
- "The Best American Poetry 2012, Guest Edited by Mark Doty". bestamericanpoetry.com. Retrieved November 27, 2018.
- "Bruce Snider Wins 2011 Lena-Miles Wever Todd Poetry Prize". SYCAMORE REVIEW. June 27, 2011. Retrieved November 27, 2018.
- "Pleiades Press | Interview with Bruce Snider". pleiadespress.org. Retrieved November 27, 2018.
- "Bruce Snider". jamesmerrillhouse.org. Retrieved November 27, 2018. Archived version
- "Former Stegner Fellows | Creative Writing Program". creativewriting.stanford.edu. Retrieved November 27, 2018.
- ^ Snider, Bruce (2003). UW Press – : The Year We Studied Women, Bruce Snider. Univ of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 9780299193843.