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Julie Sheehan in 2011. Photo by Slowking. Licensed under Creative Commons, courtesy Wikimedia Commons.

Julie Sheehan
Birth name Julie Sheehan
Born July 25, 1964
Pierson, Iowa, U.S.
Field poetry
Training Yale, Columbia

Julie Sheehan (born July 25, 1964)[1] is an American poet and academic.[2]

Life[]

Sheehan was born and grew up in Lemars, Iowa, the daughter of Rosemary (Mcgurk) and James J. Sheehan, a banker.[1]

She earned a B.A. in English from Yale University in 1986, and an M.F.A. in poetry from Columbia University in 2001.[1]

She married John Thorsen, Jr., an entrepreneur), on September 13, 1997; the couple has a son, Miles.[1]

Her work has appeared in Salmagundi, Paris Review, Prairie Schooner, Literary Imagination, Yale Review, Briar Cliff Review, Commonweal, Southwest Humanities Review, Ploughshares, and Texas Review.[1]

She lives on Long Island, New York, with her family, and is an assistant professor, and director of the M.F.A. program, at Stony Brook Southampton.[2]

Writing[]

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Sheehan and Bar Book, 2011. Photo by Slowking4. Licensed under Creative Commons, Courtesy Wikimedia Commons.

Poetry Foundation: "Sheehan’s poems often feature long lines similar to those of Walt Whitman, and she has cited Whitman as an influence in the past. She also writes in traditional forms, including the sonnet and ghazal. Poet Billy Collins has said of her work: 'Julie Sheehan possesses a range of tones—tender, sassy, quietly observant, deeply cutting.' Sheehan’s range of subjects includes marriage, relationships, and the landscape of Orient Point, Long Island. The wild nature of things under the urban and cultivated world is treated in many poems, including 'Coyotes in Greenwich!'."[2]

Recognition[]

Her "Hate Poem" was included in The Best American Poetry 2005 (edited by Paul Muldoon and David Lehman).[3]

Awards[]

Publications[]

Poetry[]

Julie_Sheehan_4_poems_on_poetryvlog.com.

Julie Sheehan 4 poems on poetryvlog.com.


Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[5]

See also[]

References[]

Notes[]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 "Sheehan, Julie 1964–, Contemporary Authors, 2009. Encyclopedia.com, Web, Dec. 21, 2018.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Julie Sheehan, Poetry Foundation. Web, Dec. 21, 2018.
  3. The Best American Poetry, 2005. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2008. ISBN 978-0-7432-5738-1
  4. Julie Sheehan, W.W. Norton & Co. Web, Dec. 21, 2018.
  5. Search results = au:Julie Sheehan, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, Nov. 23, 2015.

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