Yerra Sugarman

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Biographical Note: Yerra Sugarman received the 2005 PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry for her first book, Forms of Gone, published by The Sheep Meadow Press in 2002. Her second book, The Bag of Broken Glass, was published in January 2008, also by Sheep Meadow. She is the recipient of a “Discovery”/The Nation Poetry Prize, a Chicago Literary Award, the Poetry Society of America’s George Bogin Memorial Award, its Cecil Hemley Memorial Award, and, most recently, a Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Award and a 2008 Canada Council Grant for Creative Writers. Her poems, translations and articles have appeared, or are forthcoming, in Prairie Schooner; The Nation; ACM; Cimarron Review; Literary Imagination; Nightsun; Lyric; Pleiades; The Massachusetts Review; Blood to Remember: American Poets on the Holocaust, and other publications. Her work has been translated into French and published in French journals. Born in Toronto, she lives in New York, where she has taught creative writing in undergraduate and MFA programs. She currently teaches writing at Rutgers University, Medgar Evers and Baruch Colleges (CUNY). She can be reached at Yersug@aol.com.

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