Sean Hill
Born and raised in Milledgeville, Georgia, Sean Hill has an M.F.A. from the University of Houston, where he was awarded the 2003 Michener Fellowship for poetry. He has also received fellowships and grants from Cave Canem, the Bush Foundation, The MacDowell Colony, the University of Wisconsin, and the Jerome Foundation and work-study scholarships from Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in
Callaloo,
Ploughshares,
Pleiades,
Crab Orchard Review,
DIAGRAM,
Tin House and other literary journals, and in the anthologies
Blues Poems,
Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem's First Decade,
The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South, and the forthcoming
Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry. In 2008, the
University of Georgia Press published his first book,
Blood Ties & Brown Liquor. Hill is currently a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.
Posted on May 17, 2009 9:42 AM
