Stephen Haven

Stephen Haven's The Flight from Meaning, was a finalist for the 2019 International Beverly Prize for Literature. He has three earlier collections, The Last Sacred Place in North America, winner of the New American Poetry Prize.; Dust and Bread, winner of the Ohio Poet of the Year prize; and The Long Silence of the Mohawk Carpet Smokestacks. He has a Ph.D. from NYU, where he wrote his dissertation under the direction of Harold Bloom, and an MFA in Poetry from the University of Iowa. For twelve...See more

Stephen Haven's The Flight from Meaning, was a finalist for the 2019 International Beverly Prize for Literature. He has three earlier collections, The Last Sacred Place in North America, winner of the New American Poetry Prize.; Dust and Bread, winner of the Ohio Poet of the Year prize; and The Long Silence of the Mohawk Carpet Smokestacks. He has a Ph.D. from NYU, where he wrote his dissertation under the direction of Harold Bloom, and an MFA in Poetry from the University of Iowa. For twelve years he directed MFA Programs at Ashland University and at Lesley University. Twice a year-long Fulbright Professor at universities in Beijing, Haven has received residency fellowships from Yaddo, MacDowell, the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, and the Djerassi Foundation, as well as five Individual Excellence Awards in Poetry from the Ohio Arts Council. His work has appeared in The Southern Review, American Poetry Review, Parnassus, Literary Imagination, Crazyhorse, Guernica, Salmagundi, The American Journal of Poetry, Arts & Letters, The Common, Blackbird, The European Journal of International Law, The Missouri Review, North American Review, Northwest Review, Image, Western Humanities Review, World Literature Today, and in many other journals. He is Core Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at Lesley University in Cambridge, MA. See less