Neil Shepard

Poet

Johnson, VT
Vermont US
Email: 
neil.shepard@jsc.edu
Website: 
NeilShepard.com

Author's Bio

Shepard's most recent books of poetry include How It Is: Selected Poems (Salmong, 2018), Hominid Up (Salmon Poetry, 2015), Vermont Exit Ramps II (Green Writers Press, 2015), and (T)ravel/Un(t)ravel (Mid-List Press, 2011). Recent poems appear in Massachusetts Review, Notre Dame Review, Sewanee Review, Poem-a-Day, Poetry Daily, Verse Daily. Visiting Writer at Chautauqua Writers Institute (2018), Ossabaw Island Writers Retreat (2019), Poets House in Manhattan (2019).

Education: 
Colorado State University MFA
Ohio University PhD
Writers Retreats: 
MacDowell
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

Publications & Prizes

Books:
Hominid Up (Salmon Poetry (Ireland), 2015)
,
Vermont Exit Ramps II (Green Writers Press, 2015)
,
(T)ravel/Un(t)ravel (Mid-List Press, 2011)
,
This Far from the Source (Mid-List Press, 2006)
,
I'm Here Because I Lost My Way (Mid-List Press, 1998)
,
Scavenging the Country for a Heartbeat (Mid-List Press, 1993)
Chapbook:
Vermont Exit Ramps (Big Table Publishing Company, 2012)
Journals:
Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day
,
Antioch Review
,
Boulevard
,
Colorado Review
,
Harvard Review
,
New American Writing
,
New England Review
,
North American Review
,
Paris Review
,
Ploughshares
,
Poetry Daily
,
Poetry East
,
Sewanee Review
,
Shenandoah
,
Southern Review
,
Southwest Review
,
TriQuarterly
,
Verse Daily
Prizes won: 

First Book Award, Poetry, Mid-List Press (1993) Fellowships to MacDowell Colony, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Tyrone Guthrie Center

Personal Favorites

What I'm reading now: 
In Parenthesis by David Jones

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
White
Prefers to work with: 
Adults
Born in: 
Fitchburg, MA
Massachusetts
Raised in: 
Leominster, MA
Massachusetts
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Last update: May 15, 2019