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

  • Lecturer, Creative Writing

Contact

  • Academic
    mshewmak@stanford.edu
    University - Academic staff Department: English Position: Lecturer
    • Building 460
    • Margaret Jacks Hall
    • Stanford,  California  94305 

Additional Info

  • Mail Code: 2087

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