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Brenda Shaughnessy

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Bio

BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY was born in Okinawa and raised in Southern California. She is the author of four previous poetry collections, including So Much Synth, Human Dark with Sugar--winner of the James Laughlin Award and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award--and Our Andromeda, which was a New York Times Notable Book in 2013. A former Guggenheim fellow, she is an associate professor of English at Rutgers University, Newark. She lives in New Jersey.

Brenda Shaughnessy Books

Tanya book cover

Tanya

Brenda Shaughnessy
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The Long Devotion

Emily Pérez
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The Octopus Museum

Brenda Shaughnessy
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So Much Synth

Brenda Shaughnessy
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Cenzontle

Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
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Our Andromeda

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Human Dark with Sugar

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