Either/Ur

by Shawn Sturgeon

Strikingly lyrical poems that evoke the irony of our age and delve into the soul of our contemporary world.

Genres: Poetry

Hardcover

First published March 1, 2002

About the author

Shawn Sturgeon is the author of a collection of poems, Either/Ur, a finalist for the Independent Publisher Awards (2003), The Paris Review Prize, and a semi-finalist for the Academy of American Poets Walt Whitman Award. Part II of the book, "Fables for Beasts," about the Native American trickster Coyote, was a finalist for the Wick Chapbook Prize. His poems have appeared in The New Republic, The Paris Review, Witness, Western Humanities Review and many other magazines. He has published translations of poems by Celan and Rilke. He has been nominated for three Pushcart Prizes in poetry and one in fiction. He has a Ph.D. in English literature from the University of Cincinnati and has taught literature and writing at the University of Cincinnati, the Art Academy of Cincinnati, Emory University, Adelphi University and in the global campuses of the Rochester Institute of Technology. He has held a variety of writing fellowships. He lived in Prishtina, Kosovo from 2008-2011 where he taught and served as interim Director of Academic Affairs for RIT at the American University of Kosovo. Currently he is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the Rochester Institute of Technology/RIT-Croatia campuses in Zagreb and Dubrovnik, Croatia. He lives in Zagreb with his wife Samira.