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Neil Shepard [1]

Listed as: 
Poet
Public address: 
Johnson, VT
Vermont US
Email: 
neil.shepard@jsc.edu
Bio: 

Shepard's most recent books of poetry include How It Is: Selected Poems (Salmong, 2018), Hominid Up (Salmon Poetry, 2015), Vermont Exit Ramps II (Green Writers Press, 2015), and (T)ravel/Un(t)ravel (Mid-List Press, 2011). Recent poems appear in Massachusetts Review, Notre Dame Review, Sewanee Review, Poem-a-Day, Poetry Daily, Verse Daily. Visiting Writer at Chautauqua Writers Institute (2018), Ossabaw Island Writers Retreat (2019), Poets House in Manhattan (2019).

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Born in: 
Fitchburg, MA
Massachusetts
Raised in: 
Leominster, MA
Massachusetts
Website: 
https://NeilShepard.com [2]
Prizes won: 

First Book Award, Poetry, Mid-List Press (1993) Fellowships to MacDowell Colony, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Tyrone Guthrie Center

Education: 
Colorado State University
Ohio University
What I'm reading now: 
In Parenthesis by David Jones
Writers Retreats: 
MacDowell
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
Identifies as: 
White
Prefers to work with: 
Adults

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