Shara McCallum
Shara McCallum is an American poet. She was awarded a 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry.[1] McCallum is the author of four collections of poems, including Madwoman, which won the 2018 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature in the poetry category.[2] She currently lives in Pennsylvania.
Shara McCallum | |
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 Shara McCallum reading at Split This Rock 2018, Washington, D.C. | |
| Born | Kingston, Jamaica |
| Alma mater | University of Miami, University of Maryland, College Park Binghamton University |
| Genre | Poetry |
| Notable works | Madwoman |
| Notable awards | National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship; OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature for poetry |
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Life and work
McCallum was born in Kingston, Jamaica, to an African Jamaican father and a Venezuelan mother.[3] Her family migrated to the United States when she was nine. She graduated from the University of Miami, from the University of Maryland[4] with an M.F.A., and from Binghamton University in New York with a PhD.[5] She has taught at the Stonecoast MFA program.[6]
McCallum directs the Stadler Center for Poetry and taught creative writing and literature at Bucknell University.[7][8] McCallum is now a professor of English at Penn State University. She lives in Pennsylvania with her family.[9]
McCallum's work has appeared in The Antioch Review,[10][11] Callaloo,[12] Chelsea, The Iowa Review, Verse, Creative Nonfiction, Seneca Review,[13] and Witness.
Honors and awards
- 1998 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize
- Barbara Deming Memorial Fund grant
- Tennessee Individual Artist Grant in Literature
- 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry[1]
- Poetry fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.[3]
- Bynner award from the Library of Congress.[1]
- 2018 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature for poetry (for Madwoman).[1]
Publications
Full-length poetry collections
- The Water Between Us. University of Pittsburgh Press. 1999. ISBN 978-0-8229-5710-2.
- Song of Thieves. University of Pittsburgh Press. 2003. ISBN 978-0-8229-5813-0.
- This Strange Land (Alice James Books, forthcoming)[14]
- Madwoman (Alice James Books 2017)[15]
Nonfiction
- Emmanuel Sampath Nelson, ed. (2000). "Mary Church Terrell". African American authors, 1745–1945. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-313-30910-6.
Anthology publications
- Michael Collier, ed. (2000). The New American Poets: A Bread Loaf Anthology Series. University Press of New England.
- E. Ethelbert Miller, ed. (2002). Beyond the Frontier. Black Classic Press. ISBN 978-1-57478-017-8.
- Billy Collins, ed. (2003). Poetry 180: a turning back to poetry. Random House Trade Paperbacks. ISBN 978-0-8129-6887-3.
- Kei Miller, ed. (2007). New Caribbean Poetry: an anthology. Carcanet. ISBN 978-1-85754-941-6.
References
- National Endowment of the Arts 2011 Poetry Fellows Archived 27 November 2010 at the Wayback Machine. Nea.gov. Retrieved 20 October 2011.
- "OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature". Bocas Lit Fest.
- Foundation, Poetry (4 February 2020). "Shara McCallum". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 4 February 2020.
- College Park Magazine | Feature | University of Maryland Archived 30 May 2010 at the Wayback Machine. Urhome.umd.edu (18 October 1972). Retrieved 20 October 2011.
- Shara McCallum, Poetry, Poems, Bios & More. Poets.org. Retrieved 20 October 2011.
- Archived 6 October 2008 at the Wayback Machine
- From the Director of the Stadler Center for Poetry || Bucknell University. Bucknell.edu. Retrieved 20 October 2011.
- Shara McCallum || Bucknell University. Bucknell.edu (1 October 2011). Retrieved 20 October 2011.
- Shara McCallum | Directory of Writers | Poets & Writers. Pw.org (16 June 2009). Retrieved 20 October 2011.
- Shara McCallum (Spring 2001). "Jamaica, October 18, 1972". The Antioch Review. 59 (2): 281. doi:10.2307/4614160. JSTOR 4614160.
- Shara McCallum (Autumn 2004). "Penelope". The Antioch Review. 62 (4): 707. doi:10.2307/4614740. JSTOR 4614740.
- Project MUSE – Callaloo – Talisman. Muse.jhu.edu. Retrieved 20 October 2011.
- The Seneca Review. Hobart Student Association. 1998.
- Alice James Books > News & Events Archived 5 April 2010 at the Wayback Machine
- McCallum, Shara, 1972– (2017). Madwoman. Farmington, Maine. ISBN 978-1-938584-28-2. OCLC 945949128.
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External links
- Magdelyn Hammond, "An Interview with Shara McCallum", Smartish Pace
- "Shara McCallum, Director of the Stadler Center for Poetry", YouTube
- "For Rachel, Just before Speech", ars poetica
- "The Art Room", Poetry Foundation
- "Matins". Ploughshares. Spring 2002. Archived from the original on 20 August 2006.
- "The News", Cave Canem