Professor of English in the Humanities Division
Stephen Haven is the author of The Last Sacred Place in North America (New American Press, 2012), selected by T.R. Hummer as winner of the New American Prize. He has two previous collections of poetry, Dust and Bread (Turning Point, 2008), for which he was named 2009 Ohio Poet of the Year, and The Long Silence of the Mohawk Carpet Smokestacks (University of New Mexico/West End Press, 2004). He is also author of the memoir The River Lock: One Boy's Life Along the Mohawk (Syracuse University Press, 2008). Haven's poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, The Southern Review, Salmagundi, Image, North American Review, Guernica, Western Humanities Review and Blackbird, among other journals. He has received fellowships at Yaddo, MacDowell, the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, and at the Djerassi Foundation, five Individual Excellence Awards in Poetry from the Ohio Arts Council, and two year-long Fulbright Foundation grants to teach in Beijing universities. Haven is Professor of English in the Humanities Division at Lesley University, where he also serves on the poetry faculty of the MFA in Creative Writing Program. Prior to his position at Lesley University Haven was the Director of the Ashland University MFA program in Poetry and Creative Nonfiction and Director of the Ashland University Press.
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About Stephen Haven
Stephen Haven is the author of The Last Sacred Place in North America (New American Press, 2012), selected by T.R. Hummer as winner of the New American Prize. He has two previous collections of poetry, Dust and Bread (Turning Point, 2008), for which he was named 2009 Ohio Poet of the Year, and The Long Silence of the Mohawk Carpet Smokestacks (University of New Mexico/West End Press, 2004). He is also author of the memoir The River Lock: One Boy's Life Along the Mohawk (Syracuse University Press, 2008). Haven's poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, The Southern Review, Salmagundi, Image, North American Review, Guernica, Western Humanities Review and Blackbird, among other journals. He has received fellowships at Yaddo, MacDowell, the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, and at the Djerassi Foundation, five Individual Excellence Awards in Poetry from the Ohio Arts Council, and two year-long Fulbright Foundation grants to teach in Beijing universities. Haven is Professor of English in the Humanities Division at Lesley University, where he also serves on the poetry faculty of the MFA in Creative Writing Program. Prior to his position at Lesley University Haven was the Director of the Ashland University MFA program in Poetry and Creative Nonfiction and Director of the Ashland University Press.
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Disciplines
Honors and Awards
- 2010 New American Poetry Prize
- 2014 Djerassi Foundation Poetry Residency