Jason Schneiderman

Jason Schneiderman (born 1976) is an American poet.

Life

He graduated from University of Maryland, NYU with an MFA, and the Graduate Center of CUNY with a PhD. He taught at Hunter College, and Hofstra University. He completed a PhD at City University of New York. He is an Associate Professor at Borough of Manhattan Community College. He is a featured faculty member at the 2018 Conference on Poetry at The Frost Place.

His work has appeared in American Poetry Review, Bloom, Court Green, Grand Street, Rattapallax, Tin House, and Virginia Quarterly Review.

He lives in New York City with his husband, Michael Broder.

Books

• Primary Source. Red Hen Press. 2016.
• Queer: A Reader for Writers. Oxford University Press. 2015.
• Sublimation Point. Four Way Books. 2004. ISBN 978-1-884800-61-0.
• Striking Surface. Ashland Poetry Press. 2010. ISBN 978-0-912592-70-1.

Awards

• The Shestack Award from American Poetry Review, 2015
• The Benjamin Saltman Prize from Red Hen Press, 2015
• The Fine Arts Work Center Fellowships
• Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference Fellowships
• Yaddo Fellowships
• 2004 Writer Magazine/Emily Dickinson Award

Works

• "Charlie Brown in a Well"; "A Story about Nutrition"; "Hydration", La Petite Zine
• "Oracular", Starting Today: Poems for the First 100 Days
• "Fertile: Sterile:: My Father: Me", American Poetry Review
• "Jokes About Nuns", American Poetry Review
• "Buffy's Sestina", McSweeney's
• "The Other Side", Prairie Schooner, Winter 2008
• "Sublimation Point", Poetry foundation
• "Elegy for Lee", 42 Opus
• "Four Poems", American Poetry Review
  • The Sadness of Antonio, If you died, My Maiden Aunt Is Smoking Again, White Boy

Anthologies

• Paul Muldoon; David Lehman, eds. (2005). "Moscow". The Best American Poetry 2005. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-7432-5758-9.
• T. Cole Rachel; Rita D. Costello, eds. (2004). "Last Ditch". Bend, Don't Shatter: Poets on the Beginning of Desire. Soft Skull Press. ISBN 978-1-932360-17-2.
• Michael Montlack, ed. (2009). My Diva: 65 Gay Men on the Women Who Inspire Them. Terrace Books. ISBN 978-0-299-23120-0.
• Vera Pavlova (2005). Valentina Polukhina; Daniel Weissbort (eds.). An anthology of contemporary Russian women poets. Translator Jason Schneiderman. University of Iowa Press. ISBN 978-0-87745-948-4.
• Phillis Levin, ed. (2001). The Penguin book of the sonnet: 500 years of a classic tradition in English. Penguin Books.

External links

• "Author's website"