Julie Sheehan
American poet
Julie Sheehan (born in Iowa) is an American poet.
Life
She graduated from Yale University, and Columbia University.
She lives in Long Island, New York, with her son, and is currently Director of the MFA in Creative Writing & Literature program as well as an assistant professor at Stony Brook Southampton.
Her work has appeared in Ploughshares, Paris Review, Southwest Review, Texas Review and Western Humanities Review.
Awards
2009 New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship in poetry
2008 Whiting Award
2005 Barnard Women Poets Prize
Bernard F. Conners Prize for Poetry, Paris Review
Robert H. Winner Memorial Award, Poetry Society of America.
Poets Out Loud Prize
Works
"Dependent Clause", Huffington Post
"Ash Grove of Ash", Drunken boat
"104°". Ploughshares. Winter 2000. Archived from the original on November 4, 2007.
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