Brenda Shaughnessy

Our Andromeda

Our Andromeda  “moves me line by line and poem by poem so that by the book’s final, monumental title poem, I am top-of-the-head-blown-off undone,” says Victoria Redel in the Feb. 3 2012 New York Times review of Our Andromeda, the  third book of poetry by Brenda Shaughnessy, assistant professor, MFA in Creative Writing Program.  The New Yorker calls the book a "heady, infectious celebration," while the Harvard Review says, "Shaughnessy's voice is smart, sexy, self-aware, hip...consistently wry, and ever savvy.”

Our Andromeda (Copper Canyon Press, 2012) follows two other acclaimed books,  Human Dark with Sugar (Copper Canyon Press, 2008), winner of the James Laughlin Award and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Interior with Sudden Joy (FSG, 1999).  Shaughnessy's poems have appeared in Best American Poetry, Bomb, Boston Review, Conjunctions, McSweeneys, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and The Yale Review. Shaughnessy is a poetry editor at Tin House magazine and has also taught creative writing at Princeton, NYU, and The New School.

Brenda Shaughnessy was born in Okinawa, Japan, and grew up in Southern California.

The New York Times, Feb. 3, 2013

The New Yorker, Oct. 8, 2012