Sherod Santos

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Sherod Santos (born September 9, 1948 in Greenville, South Carolina) is an American poet, essayist and professor.^[1] His most recent poetry collection is forthcoming, The Intricated Soul: New & Selected Poems (W.W. Norton, 2010). His work has appeared in literary journals and magazines including Antioch Review,^[2] The New Yorker,^[3] The Paris Review,^[4] The Nation,^[5] Poetry, The Yale Review, American Poetry Review, The New York Times Book Review, The Kenyon Review, and Parnassus.

His many honors and awards include Guggenheim, National Endowment for the Arts and Ingram Merrill fellowships, and Pushcart prizes. His book, The Pilot Star Elegies (W.W. Norton, 2000), was a finalist for the 1999 National Book Award;^[6] and from 1990 to 1997, Santos served as external examiner and poet-in-residence at the Poets' House in Portmuck, Northern Ireland, and in 1999 he received an Award for Literary Excellence from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.^[7]

Santos was born in South Carolina and graduated from San Diego State University with a B.A. and M.A., and studied at the University of California, Irvine and the University of Utah. He is a professor of English at the University of Missouri.^[8]

Honors and awards

2002 Theodore Roethke Poetry Prize for The Pilot Star Elegies
1998 Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry from the Paris Review for "Elegy for My Sister"
1987 National Endowment for the Arts fellowship
1984 The Frost Place poet in residence in Franconia, New Hampshire
1983 Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award
1983 Guggenheim Fellowship^[9]
1982 Ingram Merrill Foundation fellowship
1981 Oscar Blumenthal Prize from Poetry magazine
1980 Pushcart Prize in both poetry and the essay
1978 "Discovery"/The Nation Award

Published works

Full-Length Poetry Collections

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. February 1, 1989. ISBN 978-0-8195-1160-7.
Accidental Weather. Doubleday. 1982. ISBN 978-0-385-18051-1.
Begin, distance: poems. Greenhouse Review Press. 1981. (chapbook)

Essay Collections

A poetry of two minds. University of Georgia Press. 2000. ISBN 978-0-8203-2204-9.

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Name	Santos, Sherrod
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Short description	American poet
Date of birth	September 9, 1948
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