Faith Shearin

Faith Shearin's books of poetry include: The Owl Question (May Swenson Award), The Empty House (Word Press), Moving the Piano (SFA University Press), Telling the Bees (SFA University Press), Orpheus, Turning (Broadkill River Press), Darwin’s Daughter (SFA University Press) and Lost Language (Press 53). She is the recipient of awards from Yaddo, The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, The National Endowment for the Arts, and The Barbara Deming Memorial Fund. Recent work appears in Poetry East, New Ohio Review, North American Review, and Alaska Quarterly Review. She received the 2022 Nonfiction Perkoff Prize from The Missouri Review. Her poems have been featured on The Writer’s Almanac and included in American Life in Poetry. Two YA novels, Lost River, 1918 and My Sister Lives in the Sea won the 2021 Global Fiction Prize, judged by Carnegie Medal winner Anthony McGowan, and are forthcoming from Leapfrog Press. She lives in Amherst, Massachusetts. Visit her at http://faithshearinlostriver.com and http://faithshearin.com.