Ira
Sadoff was born in Brooklyn, New York, on March 7, 1945. He earned a B.A. in
industrial and labor relations from Cornell University and an M.F.A. from the
University of Oregon. He is the author of seven earlier collections of poetry, a
novel, Uncoupling, The Ira Sadoff Reader, and a book of
criticism, History Matters:Contemporary Poetry on the
Margins of American Culture. He is the
recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the John
Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. In 1973, he was a fellow at the Squaw
Valley Community of Writers, and in 1974, he was the Alan Collins Fellow in
Poetry and Prose at the Bread Loaf Writer's Conference. His poetry has been
widely anthologized, including in Harper
American Literature, Great American Prose
Poems, The Best
American Poetry series,
in 2002 and 2008.
Sadoff has
served as poetry editor of The
Antioch Review, and was co-founder of The
Seneca Review. He has taught at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and in the
M.F.A. programs of the University of Virginia and Warren Wilson College. He
currently teaches in the M.F.A. program at Drew University, and serves as the
Arthur Jeremiah Roberts Professor of English at Colby College, in Maine.
