Sean Hill

A native of Milledgeville, Georgia, Sean Hill has an M.F.A. from the University of Houston Creative Writing Program, where he was awarded the 2003 Michener Fellowship for poetry. He has also received fellowships from Cave Canem, the Bush Foundation, The MacDowell Colony, and the University of Wisconsin, and work-study scholarships to Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. His poems have appeared in Callaloo, Indiana Review, lyric poetry review, Crab Orchard Review, DIAGRAM, Ninth Letter, Gulf Coast, and other literary journals, and in the anthologies Blues Poems, Gathering Ground, and The Ringing Ear. He recently received a Travel and Study Grant from the Jerome Foundation. He is currently a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. In March 2008 the University of Georgia Press published his first book, Blood Ties & Brown Liquor.