Chad Sweeney

Chad Sweeney is the author of three books of poetry, Parable of Hide and Seek (Alice James, 2010, Beatrice Hawley Award runner up), Arranging the Blaze (Anhinga Press, 2009), An Architecture (BlazeVOX, 2007) and four chapbooks, most recently A Mirror to Shatter the Hammer (Tarpaulin Sky, 2006). He is editor of the new City Lights anthology Days I Moved Through Ordinary Sounds: the Teachers of WritersCorps in Poetry and Prose, and is co-editor of Parthenon West Review (www.parthenonwestreview.com). He has co-translated a selected poems of the Iranian poet, H.E. Sayeh, and has published individual poems widely. He taught literature and poetry in San Francisco for fifteen years with WritersCorps and as poet-in-residence at the School of the Arts, and is now a Ph.D. candidate at Western Michigan University where he teaches Advanced Poetry and serves as assistant editor of New Issues Press. He has been invited to guest lecture at several universities, including U.C. Berkeley, U.C. Santa Cruz, San Francisco State University, SUNY Potsdam, South Florida University, and the University of North Carolina Greensboro.