Shara McCallum

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Shara McCallum
Shara McCallum reading at Split This Rock 2018, Washington, D.C.
Shara McCallum reading at Split This Rock 2018, Washington, D.C.
BornKingston, Jamaica
Alma materUniversity of Miami,
University of Maryland, College Park
Binghamton University
GenrePoetry
Notable awardsNational Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
Website
www.sharamccallum.com

Shara McCallum is an American poet. She was awarded a 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry.[1] McCallum is the author of four poetry collections. She currently lives in Pennsylvania.

Life and work[]

McCallum was born in Kingston, Jamaica to an African Jamaican father and a Venezuelan mother.[2] Her family migrated to the United States when she was nine. She graduated from the University of Miami, from the University of Maryland[3] with an M.F.A., and from Binghamton University in New York with a PhD.[4] She has taught at the Stonecoast MFA program.[5]

McCallum directs the Stadler Center for Poetry and taught creative writing and literature at Bucknell University.[6][7] McCallum is now a professor of English at Penn State University. She lives in Pennsylvania with her family.[8]

McCallum's work has appeared in The Antioch Review,[9][10] Callaloo,[11] Chelsea, The Iowa Review, Verse, Creative Nonfiction, Seneca Review,[12] and Witness.

Honors and awards[]

  • 1998 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize[citation needed]
  • Barbara Deming Memorial Fund grant[citation needed]
  • Tennessee Individual Artist Grant in Literature[citation needed]
  • 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry[1]
  • Poetry fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.[2]
  • Bynner award from the Library of Congress.[1]
  • 2018 OCM Bocas prize for Caribbean Literature for poetry.[1]

Publications[]

Full-length poetry collections

  • The Water Between Us. University of Pittsburgh Press. 1999. ISBN 978-0-8229-5710-2.
  • Song of Thieves. University of Pittsburgh Press. 2003. ISBN 978-0-8229-5813-0.
  • This Strange Land (Alice James Books, forthcoming)[13]
  • Madwoman (Alice James Books 2017)[14]

Nonfiction

Anthology publications

  • Michael Collier, ed. (2000). The New American Poets: A Bread Loaf Anthology Series. University Press of New England.
  • E. Ethelbert Miller, ed. (2002). Beyond the Frontier. Black Classic Press. ISBN 978-1-57478-017-8.
  • Billy Collins, ed. (2003). Poetry 180: a turning back to poetry. Random House Trade Paperbacks. ISBN 978-0-8129-6887-3.
  • Kei Miller, ed. (2007). New Caribbean poetry: an anthology. Carcanet. ISBN 978-1-85754-941-6.

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c d National Endowment of the Arts 2011 Poetry Fellows Archived 27 November 2010 at the Wayback Machine. Nea.gov. Retrieved on 20 October 2011.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b Foundation, Poetry (4 February 2020). "Shara McCallum". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 4 February 2020.
  3. ^ College Park Magazine | Feature | University of Maryland Archived 30 May 2010 at the Wayback Machine. Urhome.umd.edu (18 October 1972). Retrieved on 20 October 2011.
  4. ^ Shara McCallum, Poetry, Poems, Bios & More. Poets.org. Retrieved on 20 October 2011.
  5. ^ [1] Archived 6 October 2008 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ From the Director of the Stadler Center for Poetry || Bucknell University. Bucknell.edu. Retrieved on 20 October 2011.
  7. ^ Shara McCallum || Bucknell University. Bucknell.edu (1 October 2011). Retrieved on 20 October 2011.
  8. ^ Shara McCallum | Directory of Writers | Poets & Writers. Pw.org (16 June 2009). Retrieved on 20 October 2011.
  9. ^ Shara McCallum (Spring 2001). "Jamaica, October 18, 1972". The Antioch Review. 59 (2): 281. doi:10.2307/4614160. JSTOR 4614160.
  10. ^ Shara McCallum (Autumn 2004). "Penelope". The Antioch Review. 62 (4): 707. doi:10.2307/4614740. JSTOR 4614740.
  11. ^ Project MUSE – Callaloo – Talisman. Muse.jhu.edu. Retrieved on 20 October 2011.
  12. ^ The Seneca Review. Hobart Student Association. 1998.
  13. ^ Alice James Books > News & Events Archived 5 April 2010 at the Wayback Machine
  14. ^ McCallum, Shara, 1972- (2017). Madwoman. Farmington, Maine. ISBN 978-1-938584-28-2. OCLC 945949128.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

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