Jason Schneiderman
Encyclopedia
Life
He graduated from University of MarylandUniversity of Maryland
When the term "University of Maryland" is used without any qualification, it generally refers to the University of Maryland, College Park.University of Maryland may refer to the following:...
, and NYU with an MFA. He taught at Hunter College
Hunter College
Hunter College, established in 1870, is a public university and one of the constituent colleges of the City University of New York, located on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Hunter grants undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate degrees in more than one hundred fields of study, and is recognized...
, and Hofstra University
Hofstra University
Hofstra University is a private, nonsectarian institution of higher learning located in the Village of Hempstead, New York, United States, about east of New York City: less than an hour away by train or car...
. He is completing a PhD
PHD
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at City University of New York
City University of New York
The City University of New York is the public university system of New York City, with its administrative offices in Yorkville in Manhattan. It is the largest urban university in the United States, consisting of 23 institutions: 11 senior colleges, six community colleges, the William E...
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His work has appeared in American Poetry Review, Bloom, Court Green
Court Green
Court Green in North Tawton, Devon, England, was the home the poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath moved to in 1961. Plath left the house in December 1962, while Hughes lived there on and off for the rest of his life.- Sylvia Plath at Court Green :...
, Grand Street, Rattapallax, Tin House
Tin House
Tin House is an American literary magazine and book publisher based in Portland, Oregon and New York City. The Tin House magazine was conceived in the summer of 1998 by Portland publisher Win McCormack. He envisioned a journal that would be graphically appealing and free of the stale substance...
, and Virginia Quarterly Review.
He lives in New York City with his partner, Michael Broder.
Awards
- The Fine Arts Work CenterFine Arts Work CenterThe Fine Arts Work Center is a non-profit enterprise devoted to encouraging the growth and development of emerging visual artists and writers through residency programs, to the propagation of aesthetic values and experience, and to the restoration of the year-round vitality of the historic art...
Fellowships - Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference Fellowships
- Yaddo Fellowships
- 2004 Writer Magazine/Emily Dickinson AwardWriter Magazine/Emily Dickinson AwardThe Writer Magazine/Emily Dickinson Award is given once a year to a member of the Poetry Society of America "to honor the memory and poetry of Emily Dickinson, for a poem inspired by Dickinson though not necessarily in her style." The winner receives a $250 prize.-Winners:*2010: Marlene Rosen Fine,...
Works
- "Charlie Brown in a Well"; "A Story about Nutrition"; "Hydration", La Petite Zine
- "Oracular", Starting Today: Peoms for the First 100 Days
- "Fertile: Sterile:: My Father: Me", American Poetry Review
- "Jokes About Nuns", American Poetry Review
- "Buffy's Sestina", McSweeney's
- "The Other Side", Prairie Schooner, Winter 2008
- "Sublimation Point", Poetry foundation
- "Elegy for Lee", 42 Opus