Stephen Haven

Poet, Creative Nonfiction Writer, Translator

Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: 
(419) 685-3838
Email: 
shaven@lesley.edu
Website: 
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Author's Bio

Stephen Haven is Core Professor of Literature and Creative Writing in the Humanities Department at Lesley University. He has been a fellow or visiting writer at many universities and art centers, including the Chautauqua Institute, Meacham Workshops (University of Tennessee--Chattanooga), Michigan State Poetry Center, Yaddo, MacDowell, Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, Djerassi Foundation, Ubud International Writers Festival (Bali), Hudson Valley Writers' Center, Amherst College, Chongqing University (China), Fulbright Foundation (two years teaching in Beijing: Beijing Normal University & People's University).

Education: 
University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop MFA
Writers Retreats: 
Djerassi Resident Artists Program
Headlands Center for the Arts
MacDowell
Yaddo

Publications & Prizes

Creative Nonfiction

Anthology:
Come Together: Imagine Peace (Bottom Dog Press, 2008)
Book:
The River Lock: One Boy's Life along the Mohawk (Syracuse University Press, 2008)
Journals:
Blackbird
,
Christian Science Monitor
,
The Common
,
Image
,
North American Review

Poetry

Anthologies:
Family Matters: Poems of Our Families (Bottom Dog Press, 2005)
,
Imported Breads: Literature of Cultural Exchange (Mammoth Books, 2003)
,
And What Rough Beast: Poems at the End of the Century (Ashland Poetry Press, 1999)
Books:
The Flight from Meaning (Black Spring Press, 2023)
,
The Last Sacred Place in North America (New American Press, 2012)
,
Dust and Bread (Turning Point, 2008)
,
The Long Silence of the Mohawk Carpet Smokestacks (West End Press, 2004)
Chapbook:
The Enemy in Defensive Positions: Poems from China (Poetry Miscellany Chapbooks, 2008)
Journals:
American Journal of Poetry
,
American Poetry Review
,
Artful Dodge
,
Arts & Letters
,
Asheville Poetry Review
,
Blackbird
,
Chautauqua
,
Christian Science Monitor
,
Cincinnati Review
,
The Common
,
Consequence
,
Guernica Magazine
,
Image: A Journal of the Arts and Religion
,
Image
,
Literary Imagination
,
North American Review
,
Northwest Review
,
Parnassus
,
Pif
,
Poetry Miscellany
,
Poetry New Zealand
,
Salmagundi
,
Southern Review
,
Western Humanities Review
,
World Literature Today

Translation

Book:
Trees Grow Lively on Snowy Fields: Poems from Contemporary China by collaborative translators Stephen Haven, Jin Zhong, Li Yongyi, Wang Shouyi;, translated from the Chinese (Twelve Winters Press, 2021)
Prizes won: 

2019 International Beverly Prize for Literature Finalist (Eyewear Publishing); 2010 New American Prize (New American Press, publication award for collection of poems, The Last Sacred Place in North America, 2012, selected by T.R. Hummer); 2009 Ohio Poet of the Year (book prize for Dust and Bread); five Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist grants; Fulbright teaching fellowships to universities in Beijing, 1990-1991 & 1997-1998

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Born in: 
Syracuse
Raised in: 
Amsterdam, NY
New York
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Last update: Jul 09, 2022