Stephen Haven has published three books of poems, Last Sacred Place in North
American (New American Press, 2012),Dust and Bread (Turning Point, 2008) and The Long
Silence of the Mohawk Carpet Smokestacks (West End Press, 2004), and one memoir, The
River Lock: One Boy’s Life along the Mohawk (Syracuse University Press, 2008). Last
Sacred Place in North America was selected by T.R. Hummer as winner of the 2010 New
American Press Poetry Prize. For Dust and Bread, he was named 2009 Co-Ohio Poet of the
Year by the Ohio Poetry Day Association. Haven has also published a chapbook of
collaborative translations from contemporary Chinese poetry, The Enemy in Defensive
Positions (Poetry Miscellany Chapbooks, 2008). He is editor of The Poetry of W.D.
Snodgrass: Everything Human (University of Michigan Press, 1993) and co-editor of two
anthologies of contemporary poetry. Haven's poetry and essays have appeared in The
Southern Review, Parnassus, Literary Imagination, Crazyhorse, American Poetry Review,
Salmagundi, Image, Western Humanities Review, The Missouri Review, and in many other
journals. He has an M.F.A. in Poetry from the University of Iowa and a Ph.D. in American
Civilization from New York University, where he wrote his dissertation under the
direction of Harold Bloom. Haven has been a repeat fellow at Yaddo and MacDowell, twice a
Fulbright Lecturer in American Literature (poetry) at universities in Beijing, and has
won four individual artist grants and one residency fellowship (at the Provincetown Fine
Arts Work Center) from the Ohio Arts Council. Haven is Director of the Ashland University
MFA Program in Poetry and Creative Nonfiction, and Director of the Ashland Poetry Press.