Brenda Shaughnessy was born in Okinawa, Japan, in 1970 and grew up in Southern California. She is the author of five poetry collections, including The Octopus Museum, So Much Synth, and Our Andromeda. She is an assistant professor of English at Rutgers–Newark, and lives in Verona, New Jersey, with her family.
WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:
- All Possible Pain, poetry, in Poems of the Week: 2012–2013
- Drift, poetry, in Poems of the Week: 2010–2011
- Old Bed, poetry, in Poems of the Week: 2008–2009