Sherod Santos

Sherod Santos (born September 9, 1948) is an American poet, essayist, and academic.^[1]

Life[]

Santos was born in Greenville, South Carolina.^[1] He graduated from San Diego State University with a B.A. and M.A., and studied at the University of California, Irvine, and the University of Utah. He is a professor of English at the University of Missouri.^[2]

His most recent poetry collection is forthcoming, The Intricated Soul: New & Selected Poems (W.W. Norton & Company, 2010). His work has appeared in literary journals and magazines including the Antioch Review,^[3] New Yorker,^[4] Paris Review,^[5] Nation,^[6] Poetry, Yale Review, American Poetry Review, New York Times Book Review, Kenyon Review , and Parnassus. From 1990 to 1997, Santos served as external examiner and poet in residence at the Poets' House in Portmuck, Northern Ireland,

His many honors and awards include Guggenheim, National Endowment for the Arts, and Ingram Merrill fellowships, and Pushcart prizes. His book, The Pilot Star Elegies (W.W. Norton, 2000), was a finalist for the 1999 National Book Award;^[7] and in 1999 he received an Award for Literary Excellence from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.^[8]

2002 Theodore Roethke Poetry Prize for The Pilot Star Elegies
1998 Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry from the Paris Review for "Elegy for My Sister"
1987 National Endowment for the Arts fellowship
1984 The Frost Place poet in residence in Franconia, New Hampshire
1983 Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award
1983 Guggenheim Fellowship^[9]
1982 Ingram Merrill fellowship
1981 Oscar Blumenthal Prize from Poetry magazine
1980 Pushcart Prize in both poetry and the essay
1978 "Discovery"/The Nation Award

Elkin Pond (chapbook). Tempe, AZ: Porch Publications, 1979.
Begin, Distance: Poems (chapbook). Santa Cruz, CA: Greenhouse Review Press, 1981.
Accidental Weather. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1982.
Sentimental Education (chapbook). West Chester, PA: Avila Press, 1989.
The Southern Reaches. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1989.
The City of Women: A sequence of poems and prose. New York: Norton, 1993.
The Pilot Star Elegies. New York: Norton, 1999.
The Perishing. New York: Norton, 2003.
The Intricated Soul: New and selected poems. New York: Norton, 2010.

Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.^[10]