About
Alan Shapiro has published many books of poetry and prose, including Reel to Reel, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Night of the Republic, finalist for both the National Book Award and the International Griffin Prize, The Dead Alive and Busy, winner of the Kingsley Tufts Award, and Mixed Company, winner of the LA Times Book Prize. His new books of poetry, Proceed to Check Out, and By and By, will be published in 2022 and 2023 respectively. He now lives in Durham, NC, will his dog Sammy.
Degrees
1974, BA, Brandeis University
Publications
Proceed to Check Out, Chicago, 2022
Against Translation, Chicago, 2019
Reel to Reel, Chicago, 2016
Night of the Republic, Houghton Mifflin-Harcourt, 2012
Vigil (a memoir), Chicago, 1997
Awards
Guggenheim Fellowship
Two National Endowment for the Arts Awards in poetry
A Writer’s Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters
Kingsley Tufts Award
William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America