Brenda Shaughnessy

BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY is the Okinawan-Irish American author of five previous books of poetry, including The Octopus Museum and Our Andromeda . The recipient of a 2018 Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a Professor of English and Creative Writing at Rutgers University-Newark, Shaughnessy lives with her family in New Jersey.

BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY is the Okinawan-Irish American author of five previous books of poetry, including The Octopus Museum and Our Andromeda . The recipient of a 2018 Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a Professor of English and Creative Writing at Rutgers University-Newark, Shaughnessy lives with her family in New Jersey. See less