Simeon Berry was born in Guilford, Connecticut, in 1973
and was educated at New College and Eckerd College. He HehE received
a M.F.A. in Poetry from Indiana University in 2001. He lives in Boston, where he is a poetry and fiction reader
for Ploughshares. He has won an Academy of American Poets Award, the Dana Award
for Poetry, and a Career Chapter Award from the National Society of Arts
and Letters. His work has
been recently published in The
Literary Review, Washington Square, New Orleans Review, Southern Poetry
Review, AGNI, Notre Dame Review, Crazyhorse, Passages North, Hayden's
Ferry Review, Seneca Review, The
Iowa Review, American Letters & Commentary, and is forthcoming
in Chelsea, The Southeast Review, and
Verse.
In 2005, his manuscript, Ampersand
Revisited, was a finalist for the Walt Whitman Award, The Carnegie
Mellon Classic Contemporaries Series, and The National Poetry Series.
In 2006, he received a Massachusetts Cultural Council Individual
Artist Grant.
to contact: email sim@simeonberry.com
