Antioch University Los Angeles is proud to announce the awarding of a 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship to Professor Reginald Shepherd. Shepherd is an accomplished poet and associate faculty member within AULA’s award winning Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program.
The 84th Annual Guggenheim Fellowships were awarded to a mere 191 fellows from a pool of over 2600 applicants. Each year the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation honors advanced professionals from within the natural sciences, social sciences, humanities and
creative arts. Additionally, “Guggenheim Fellows are appointed on the basis of stellar achievement and exceptional promise for continued accomplishment.”
Shepherd is the editor of The Iowa Anthology of New American Poetries (University of Iowa Press, 2004) and of Lyric Postmodernisms (Counterpath Press, 2008). He is the author of: Fata Morgana (2007), winner of the Silver Medal of the 2007 Florida Book Awards, Otherhood (2003), a finalist for the 2004 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, Wrong (1999), Angel, Interrupted (1996), and Some Are Drowning (1994), winner of the 1993 Associated Writing Programs’ Award in Poetry (all University of Pittsburgh Press).
Shepherd's work has appeared in four editions of The Best American Poetry and two Pushcart Prize anthologies, as well as in such journals as American Poetry Review, Conjunctions, The Kenyon Review, The Nation, The New York Times Book Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, and The Yale Review. It has also been widely anthologized. He is also the author of Orpheus in the Bronx: Essays on Identity, Politics, and the Freedom of Poetry (Poets on Poetry Series, University of Michigan Press).
Additional information on Professor Reginald Shepherd can be found online at http://reginaldshepherd.blogspot.com/
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