Enid Shomer

Enid Shomer
Occupation novelist, short story writer, poet
Nationality United States
Genre Literary fiction, poetry

Enid Shomer is an American poet and fiction writer. She is author of six poetry collections and two short story collections.[1] Her poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines including The Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, Paris Review, The New Criterion, Kenyon Review, Tikkun, and in anthologies including The Best American Poetry. Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker, New Stories from the South, the Year's Best, Modern Maturity, New Letters, Prairie Schooner, Shenandoah, and Virginia Quarterly Review. Her stories, poems, and essays have been included in more than fifty anthologies and textbooks, including Poetry: A HarperCollins Pocket Anthology. Her book reviews and essays have appeared in The New Times Book Review, The Women's Review of Books, and elsewhere. Two of her books, Stars at Noon and Imaginary Men, were the subjects of feature interviews on NPR's Morning Edition and All Things Considered. Her writing is largely set in, influenced by, and life in the State of Florida. Shomer is Poetry Series Editor for the University of Arkansas Press, and has taught at the University of Arkansas, Florida State University, and the Ohio State University, where she was the Thurber House Writer-in-Residence.[2][3]

Shomer has a B.A. from Wellesley College and an M.A. from the University of Miami.

Honors and awards

Shomer's many awards include two fellowships in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts,[4] three fellowships from the State of Florida, the Eunice Tietjens Prize from Poetry, the Celia Wagner Award of the Poetry Society of America, the Randall Jarrell Prize, Wildwood Prize, and Eve of St. Agnes Prize. Her poem sequence, Pope Joan, was adapted into a dance oratorio by composer Anne LeBaron and choreographer Mark Taylor and premiered in October 2000. In fiction, she has won the H.E. Frances Prize, the Iowa Woman Prize, and the 2004 Emily Clark Balch Prize from the Virginia Quarterly Review. In March 2007 she won the Gold Medal in the Florida Book Awards for Tourist Season: Stories.[5][6][7]

Published works

Poetry Collections

Chapbooks

Short Story Collections

References

  1. ↑ Library of Congress Online Catalog > Enid Shomer
  2. ↑ Ashland University > The MFA at Ashland > Visiting Writers > Enid Shomer Bio
  3. ↑ Enid Shomer's Website > Bio
  4. ↑ National Endowment for the Arts > Forty Years of Supporting American Writers > Literature Fellows
  5. ↑ St. Petersburg Times > March 6, 2008 > Tampa Bay Area Authors Among Florida Book Award Winners By Colette Bancroft
  6. ↑ Ashland University > The MFA at Ashland > Visiting Writers > Enid Shomer Bio
  7. ↑ Enid Shomer's Website > Bio

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