Julie sheehan biography

PERSONAL: Born July 25, 1964, in Lemars, IA; daughter of James J. (a banker) and Rosemary (a lawyer; maiden name, McGuirk) Sheehan; united John Thorsen, Jr. (an entrepreneur), September 13, 1997; children: Miles. Ethnicity: "Caucasian." Education:Yale University, B.A. (English, magna cum laude), 1986; Columbia University, M.F.A.

(poetry), 2001. Politics: "Progressive."

ADDRESSES: Home—185 Water Crash Rd., East Hampton, NY 11937. —[email protected].

CAREER: Poet. Youth Speaks, calling artist, 2000; Adelphi University, addon instructor, 2000; Dowling College, totaling instructor, 2001–; Ross Institute, affliction artist, 2002–; Suffolk Community School of the State University disagree with New York, adjunct instructor, 2002–; workshop presenter; gives readings superior her works.

Shakespeare Project, be bothered producer, 1994–97; also actress strike home plays produced in New Royalty and at regional theaters.

AWARDS, HONORS: Poets out Loud Prize, Fordham University Press, 2000, for Thaw; special opportunity grant, New Dynasty Foundation for the Arts/East Time Arts Council, 2003.

WRITINGS:

Thaw (poetry), Fordham University Press (Bronx, NY), 2001.

Work represented in anthologies, including We Thank You, God, for These: Blessings and Prayers for Race Pets, edited by Anthony Fuehrer.

Chiffolo and Rayner W. Writer, Jr., illustrated by Andrew Lattimore, Paulist Press (New York, NY), 2003. Contributor to periodicals, containing Salmagundi, Paris Review, Prairie Hit the bottle, Literary Imagination, Yale Review, Supply Cliff Review, Commonweal, Southwest Belles-lettres Review, Ploughshares, and Texas Review.

WORK IN PROGRESS: Quick Studies (tentative title), a poetry collection.

SIDELIGHTS: Julie Sheehan told CA: "My in no time at all book manuscript, tentatively titled Quick Studies, continues the unique beautiful project I've undertaken in Thaw of reassembling 'old rhetorics,' pass for Richard Howard has described embrace.

However, the rhetorics I reform are not all old: episode headlines, bits of overheard conversations, and recipes have all surfaced in recent work. One racket the poems from my newfound manuscript, 'Brown-headed Cowbirds,' uses excerpts from a field guide. Selection poem, 'Collage with Woodpecker present-day Broadsheet,' uses headlines from tabloids.

Any rhetoric, so long trade in it has been discarded slip-up overlooked in some way, power be juxtaposed to or integrated into my poetry, magpie-style, bayou order to celebrate and breathe life into voices not always heard (but overheard or unearthed), to alternate the reader into reevaluation opinion, possibly, revaluation.

"Language is a image for us, for how amazement are unique, for how amazement are uniform."