Steven Schneider

Steven P. Schneider is Professor of English at the University of Texas-Pan American. He is the co-creator with his artist wife Reefka of the traveling exhibit and book Borderlines: Drawing Border Lives, Fronteras: dibujando las vidas fronterizas. He is the author of several books, including two collections of poetry, Prairie Air Show and Unexpected Guests, a scholarly book entitled A.R. Ammons and the Poetics of Widening Scope and the editor of Complexities of Motion: New Essays on A.R. Ammons’s Long Poems and The Contemporary Narrative Poem: Critical Crosscurrents. His awards include a Wurlitzer Foundation residency, the Anna Davidson Rosenberg Award for Poetry, a Nebraska Arts Council Fellowship and two Big Read grants from the National Endowment for the Arts.