Reginald Shepherd

 

REGINALD SHEPHERD'S five books of poetry, all published by the University of Pittsburgh Press, include Fata Morgana (2007), Otherhood (2003), a finalist for the 2004 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, and Some Are Drowning (1994), winner of the 1993 Associated Writing Programs’ Award in Poetry. He is the editor of The Iowa Anthology of New American Poetries (University of Iowa Press, 2004) and of Lyric Postmodernisms (Counterpath Press, 2008). His prose collection Orpheus in the Bronx: Essays on Identity, Politics, and the Freedom of Poetry was published in the University of Michigan Press Poets on Poetry series in 2008. Shepherd lives with his partner in Pensacola, Florida.