Brenda Shaughnessy is the author of five poetry collections, including The Octopus Museum; So Much Synth; and Our Andromeda, which was a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Award, The International Griffin Prize, and the PEN Open Book Award. A 2013 Guggenheim Foundation Fellow, she is Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at Rutgers University-Newark.
Hosted by NYU Creative Writing Program Director Deborah Landau, the author of four poetry collections, most recently Soft Targets.