Aunt Bird - Yerra Sugarman

Yerra Sugarman is also the author of Forms of Gone (Sheep Meadow Press, 2002), which won PEN American Center's PEN / Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry, and The Bag of Broken Glass (Sheep Meadow Press, 2008), poems from which received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. Her other honors include a Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Award, a Canada Council for the Arts Grant for Creative Writers, the Poetry Society of America's George Bogin Memorial Award and Cecil Hemley Memorial Award, a Chicago Literary Award, and a Discovery/ The Nation Poetry Award. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Ploughshares , Colorado Review , The Nation , AGNI , Prairie Schooner , New England Review , and elsewhere. She earned an MFA in Visual Art from Columbia University, and a PhD in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Houston. Born in Toronto, she lives in New York City.