Steven Schroeder grew up in the Texas Panhandle, where he first learned to take nothing seriously, and his poetry continues to be rooted in the experience of the Plains. He teaches at the University of Chicago in the Basic Program of Liberal Education for Adults and Asian Classics.

A Dim Sum of the Day Before (Ink Brush Press, 2010), a guest giving way like ice melting: thirteen ways of looking at laozi (Ink Brush Press, 2010), Six Stops South (Cherry Grove, 2009), The Imperfection of the Eye (Virtual Artists Collective, 2007), Fallen Prose (Virtual Artists Collective, 2006), Theory of Cats (Pudding House Publications, 2003)

on the no road way to tomorrow (Virtual Artists Collective, 2009), Big Land, Big Sky, Big Hair: Best of the Texas Poetry Calendar (Dos Gatos Press, 2008), Two Southwests (Virtual Artists Collective, 2008), Druskininkai Poetic Fall 2005 (Vaga Press, 2005), E: The 2002 Emily Dickinson Awards Anthology (Universities West Press, 2003), E: The 1996 Emily Dickinson Awards Anthology (Universities West Press, 1997)

After Hours, Amarillo Bay, Big Tex [t], Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, Concho River Review, Cresset, Descant, Dim Sum, Georgetown Review, Karamu, mid-america poetry review, Moon City Review, New Texas, Penwood Review, Petroglyph, Poetry East, Rambunctious Review, Rhino Magazine, San Pedro River Review, Texas Poetry Calendar, Texas Review, The Drunken Boat, TriQuarterly, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Wichita Falls Literature and Art Review