Bio
Michael Shewmaker is the author of Leviathan (2023) and Penumbra (2017), winner of the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize. Born in Texarkana, Texas, he is the recipient of fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and Stanford University, where he was a Wallace Stegner Fellow. His recent poems appear in Best American Poetry, The Believer, Harvard Review, Oxford American, Ploughshares, Southern Review, and elsewhere. He is a Jones Lecturer in poetry at Stanford University and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife, Emily.
Academic Appointments
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Lecturer, Creative Writing
2022-23 Courses
- Creative Expression in Writing
ENGLISH 9CE (Sum) - Creative Nonfiction
ENGLISH 91 (Spr, Sum) - Reading and Writing Poetry
ENGLISH 92 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Write Like a Poet: From Tradition to Innovation
ENGLISH 21Q (Aut) -
Independent Studies (1)
- Individual Work
ENGLISH 198 (Aut, Win, Spr)
- Individual Work
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Prior Year Courses
2021-22 Courses
- Creative Expression in Writing
ENGLISH 9CE (Spr, Sum) - Intermediate Poetry Writing
ENGLISH 192 (Aut) - Reading and Writing Poetry
ENGLISH 92 (Win, Spr) - Write Like a Poet: From Tradition to Innovation
ENGLISH 21Q (Aut)
2020-21 Courses
- Creative Nonfiction
ENGLISH 91 (Win, Spr, Sum) - Reading and Writing Poetry
ENGLISH 92 (Spr) - Write Like a Poet: From Tradition to Innovation
ENGLISH 21Q (Sum)
2019-20 Courses
- Creative Expression in Writing
ENGLISH 9CE (Aut, Win) - Poetry Salon
ENGLISH 192PS (Spr) - Reading and Writing Poetry
ENGLISH 92 (Spr, Sum) - Write Like a Poet: From Tradition to Innovation
ENGLISH 21Q (Aut)
- Creative Expression in Writing
All Publications
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Revenant
PLOUGHSHARES
2021; 47 (1): 171-172
View details for Web of Science ID 000654228500053
- Penumbra Ohio University Press. 2017