Sharon
Bryan is the author of three previous collections of poetry: Salt Air and Objects of Affection from Weslayan University Press, and Flying Blind from Sarabande Books. She
is also the editor of Where We Stand:
Women Poets on Literary Tradition, published by Norton, and co-editor (with
William Olsen) of Planet on the Table:
Poets on the Reading Life, also published by Sarabande. She received a BA
in Philosophy, an MA in Physical Anthropology, and an MFA in Poetry. Her awards
include two NFA Fellowships in Poetry, an Artist Trust grant from the
Washington State Art Council, and numerous other prizes and awards, including
the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award for 2009 for her collection of poetry Sharp Stars. She was a poet-in-residence
at The Frost Place in Franconia, New Hampshire, and a senior fellow at the
Provincetown Artist Colony. Her poems have appeared in numerous magazines and
anthologies. She has taught as a visiting poet at numerous universities, most
recently the University of Connecticut.
