Brenda Shaughnessy is the Okinawan-Irish American author of seven poetry collections, including Tanya (Knopf, 2023) The Octopus Museum (a New York Times 2019 Notable Book,) and Our Andromeda, finalist for the Griffin International Prize, the PEN/Open Book Award, and the Kingsley Tufts Prize. Recipient of awards from The American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Guggenheim Foundation, she is Professor of English and Director of the Creative Writing Program at Rutgers University-Newark. She lives in West Orange, New Jersey.
Brenda Shaughnessy is the Okinawan-Irish American author of seven poetry collections, including Tanya (Knopf, 2023) The Octopus Museum (a New York Times 2019 Notable Book,) and Our Andromeda, finalist for the Griffin International Prize, the PEN/Open Book Award, and the Kingsley Tufts Prize. Recipient of awards from The American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Guggenheim Foundation, she is Professor of English and Director of the Creative Writing Program at Rutgers University-Newark. She lives in West Orange, New Jersey.
Brenda Shaughnessy is the Okinawan-Irish American author of seven poetry collections, including Tanya (Knopf, 2023) The Octopus Museum (a New York Times 2019 Notable Book,) and Our Andromeda, finalist for the Griffin International Prize, the PEN/Open Book Award, and the Kingsley Tufts Prize. Recipient of awards from The American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Guggenheim Foundation, she is Professor of English and Director of the Creative Writing Program at Rutgers University-Newark. She lives in West Orange, New Jersey.
