Visiting Writer Sheryl St. Germain
Visiting Writer Sheryl St. Germain spent time in Tom Murphy's Memoir Writing
class February 5 (she writes about growing up in New Orleans, and that date
marks the beginning of Mardi Gras) and February 8.
A native of New Orleans, Sheryl St. Germain has taught creative writing at
The University of Texas at Dallas, the University of Louisiana at Lafayette,
Knox College and Iowa State University. She currently directs the MFA
program in Creative Writing at Chatham College where she also teaches
poetry and creative nonfiction. Her work has received several awards,
including two NEA Fellowships, an NEH Fellowship, the Dobie-Paisano Fellowship,
the Ki Davis Award from the Aspen Writers Foundation, and most recently the
William Faulkner Award for the personal essay.
Her poems and essays have appeared in numerous literary journals, including
TriQuarterly Review, Chatahoochee Review, New Letters, River Styx and Calyx.
Her books include Going Home, The Mask of Medusa, Making
Bread at Midnight, How Heavy the Breath of God, and The
Journals of Scheherazade. She has also published a book of translations
of the Cajun poet Jean Arceneaux, Je Suis Cadien. A book of
lyric essays, Swamp Songs: the Making of an Unruly Woman, was published
in 2003 by The University of Utah Press. Bio excerpted from http://www.sherylstgermain.com/about.html
She is currently at work on a new book of essays about Louisiana.
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