Stephen Sandy was born in Minneapolis. He took his B.A. in English from Yale and, following military service, completed a Ph.D. at Harvard. After teaching in Tokyo as a Fulbright lecturer, he returned to take a position at Brown University as a Phi Beta Kappa poet, an honor he would repeat again later at Yale. Over the course of his varied writing career he has been widely published in magazines and is the author of fifteen books and chapbooks of poetry as well as translations of Horace, Aeschylus and Seneca. He has won numerous awards and held several fellowships including residence at Yaddo, The Rockefeller Foundation’s
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