09.26.2013 - By Writers at Cornell
Brenda
Shaughnessy's most recent collection of poetry is
Our
Andromeda,
from Copper Canyon Press. She’s also the author of Human
Dark with Sugar and
Interior
with Sudden Joy.
Her poems have appeared in Harpers,
McSweeney’s, The Nation, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Slate
and
elsewhere. She is a 2013 Guggenheim Fellow, and is Assistant
Professor of English in the M.F.A. Program at Rutgers-Newark. She
lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two children. Shaughnessy read from her work on September 26, 2013, in Cornell’s Goldwin Smith Hall. This interview took place earlier the same day.