Sean Singer is an American poet. His first book, Discography, won the 2001 Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize, selected by W.S. Merwin. His poems have been published in various journals, including Salmagundi, Tin House, and Pleiades, and Callaloo. He was a waiter at Breadloaf and won an Academy of American Poets Prize.

He has taught undergraduate and graduate creative writing at Binghamton University

Binghamton University

Binghamton University, also formally called State University of New York at Binghamton, , is a public research university in the State of New York. The University is one of the four university centers in the State University of New York system...

, Hunter College

Hunter College

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, Stern College, Hartwick College

Hartwick College

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, William Paterson University

William Paterson University

William Paterson University is a comprehensive public institution located in Wayne, New Jersey serving nearly 11,000 undergraduate and graduate students through five colleges: , , , , and ....

, Northern Arizona University

Northern Arizona University

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, and Barnard College

Barnard College

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. He graduated from Indiana University

Indiana University

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 and received his MFA from Washington University in St. Louis. Sean Singer is a Ph.D. student in American Studies, at Rutgers-Newark

Rutgers-Newark

Rutgers University in Newark is one of three campuses of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, the eighth oldest college in the United States and a member of the Association of American Universities...

. He lives in New York City.

Honors and awards

• Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize, selected by W.S. Merwin, 2001
• Massachusetts Cultural Council artists’ grant
• Norma Farber First Book Award, from the Poetry Society of America
• National Endowment for the Arts, 2005 Fellowship

Published works

Books

Poems Published in Periodicals

Criticism & Essays

Art

• Three Sketches, Sean Singer, Memorious 3, Issue 3, November 2004

Reviews

Sean Singer’s Discography is a singular, quirky, and, at times, astonishingly beautiful first book.

External links

• Sean Singer, Interview, GenJ