Sharon Fain

Author's Bio

Publications and Prizes

Chapbooks:

Territories (Spire Press, 2011), Telling the Story Another Way (Pudding House Press, 2003)

Anthologies:

Best New Poets 2010 (Samovar Press, 2010), The Place That Inhabits Us (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2010)

Journals:

Arts & Letters, Crab Orchard Review, Ekphrasis, Hayden's Ferry Review, Midwest Quarterly, Nimrod, Poetry East, Poetry Northwest, Southern Humanities Review, Southern Poetry Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, The Literary Review

Prizes:

2009 Robinson Jeffers Tor House Prize, 2009 Atlanta Review Publication Prize, 2011 Paumanok Visiting Writer Award, and a Ledge Prize in 2010. Other honors include an individual artist grant from the Marin (California) Arts Council, a pushcart nomination, a visiting reader appointment from the Poetry Center of Chicago and residencies at the Anderson Center, Blue Mountain Center, Byrdcliffe and I-Park.

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Listing last updated: May 10, 2013

More Information

Listed as:

Poet

Gives readings?

Yes

Travels for readings?

Yes

Identifies as:

Feminist

Prefers to work with:

Any

Fluent in:

English

Born in:

Elko, NV

Raised in:

Schenectady, NY