Sherod Santos (born September 9, 1948 in Greenville, South Carolina) is an American poet, essayist, translator and playwright.[1] His newest poetry collection, Square Inch Hours (W.W. Norton) was published in 2017. His work has appeared in The New Yorker,[2] The Paris Review,[3] The Nation,[4] Poetry, The Royal Court Theatre, Proscenium Theatre Journal, American Poetry Review, and The New York Times Book Review. The Algonquin Theatre in New York City, The Side Project in Chicago, the Brooklyn International Theatre Festival, and the Flint Michigan Play Festival have all staged productions of his plays. He wrote the settings for the Sappho poems in the CD Magus Insipiens, composed by Paul Sanchez and sung by soprano Kayleen Sanchez.

His many honors and awards include an Academy Award for Literary Excellence from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, a Guggenheim Fellowship, The Umhoefer Prize for Achievement in the Humanities, a National Endowment for the Arts Grant, the Theodore Roethke Memorial Prize. He was a finalist for The New Yorker Book Award in Poetry as well as The National Book Critics Circle Award and The National Book Award. From 1990 to 1998 he served as external examiner and poet-in-residence at the Poets' House outside Belfast, Northern Ireland.

He lives in Chicago, Illinois, where he works in an outreach program for the homeless.

Honors and awards

Published works

Full-Length Poetry Collections

  • Square Inch Hours. W. W. Norton & Company. 2017, ISBN 0393254984
  • The Intricated Soul. W. W. Norton & Company. 2010. ISBN 978-0-393-07216-7.
  • The Perishing. W. W. Norton & Company. 2004. ISBN 978-0-393-32576-8.
  • The Pilot Star Elegies. W. W. Norton & Company. 2000. ISBN 978-0-393-32049-7.
  • The City of Women. W. W. Norton & Company. 1994. ISBN 978-0-393-31175-4.
  • The Southern Reaches. Wesleyan University Press. 1989.
  • Accidental Weather. Doubleday & Company, Inc. 1982.

Essay Collections

Translations

"Plays"

  • Follow the Leader. Produced at The Side Project, Chicago, IL, 2016.
  • Lives of the Pigeons. Produced at The Side Project, Chicago, IL, 2013
  • Star. Produced at Algonquin Theatre, New York City, 2010
  • Coffee Shop. Produced as part of Flint Michigan Play Festival, 2010

References

  1. ↑ International Who's Who in Poetry 2004. Taylor & Francis. 2004. ISBN 978-1-85743-178-0.
  2. ↑ "Page not found - The New Yorker". newyorker.com. Retrieved 2014-10-11. {{cite web}}: Cite uses generic title (help)
  3. ↑ http://www.parisreview.com/results.php?prmKeyword=Sherod%20Santos%5B%5D
  4. ↑ Trillin, Calvin (28 September 2011). "Home | The Nation". thenation.com. Retrieved 2014-10-11. {{cite magazine}}: Cite magazine requires |magazine= (help)
  5. ↑ "Sherod Santos - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation". gf.org. Archived from the original on 2014-10-17. Retrieved 2014-10-11.
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