Sam Witt
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Sam Witt is an American poet who authored the collection Everlasting Quail.
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[edit] Life
Born in 1970 in Wimbledon, England, Witt moved to the United States in 1977. He studied as an undergraduate at the University of Virginia and went on to receive his MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Everlasting Quail was published in 2001 by the New England Press. Sam later spent a year in Russia as a Fulbright Scholar to work on his second book. Sam has taught at the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Iowa, Saint Petersburg State University, and as a creative writing lecturer in the English Department of Harvard University. He is currently a member of the faculty of the University of Missouri at Kansas City.
[edit] Books and Awards
Sam Witt's first book, Everlasting Quail, was selected by judge Carol Frost for the Katharine Bakeless Nason Poetry Prize given by the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference run by Middlebury College.
[edit] Bibliography
- Everlasting Quail (2001)
- Sunflower Brother (2007)
