interview // brenda shaughnessy
Brenda Shaughnessy’s books include So Much Synth (Copper Canyon Press, 2016) and Our Andromeda(Copper Canyon Press, 2012). She is a recipient of the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets and the Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts. She has taught at Columbia University, the New School, Princeton University, and New York University, and she is currently an assistant professor of English at Rutgers University, where she also teaches in the MFA program. She lives in New Jersey with her family.
Shaughnessy visited Butler University as part of the Vivian S. Delbrook Visiting Writers Series in fall 2016, offering a soft-spoken invitation into her bitingly honest odes of girlhood. Later Shaughnessy sat down with Booth to discuss her latest collection, which Ada Limón described as “a brilliant feminist excavation of adolescence,” as well as mold-breaking, her poetic toolbox, rape culture, and being a “nasty woman.”
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