Steve Scafidi
Steve Scafidi at the Fishouse, Pittston, Maine, September 2005.
Steve Scafidi was raised in Virginia and earned his MFA at Arizona State University. His first book,
Sparks from a Nine-Pound Hammer (LSU, 2001), was nominated for the 2001 National Book Award, the 2002 Pulitzer Prize, and won the Fifth Annual Larry Levis Reading Prize. His second book,
For Love of Common Words was published by LSU Press in the spring 2006. He works as a cabinet maker and lives in West Virginia with his wife and daughter.
Posted on February 16, 2005 6:14 AM
