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Michael D Snediker is a well-known poet and a scholar of American literature, poetics, and disability theory. He is Associate Professor of American Literature & Poetics at the University of Houston, before which he was a Queens National Scholar and Associate Professor of American Literature at Queen's University, in Kingston, Ontario. He is the author of Contingent Figure: Chronic Pain and Queer Embodiment (University of Minnesota Press, 2021). His poetry has appeared in The Cortland Review,1 The Paris Review,2 Blip Magazine, The Beloit Poetry Journal, Blackwarrior Review, Court Green, Crazyhorse, Jubilat, Margie, Pleiades. He has been nominated twice for the prestigious Pushcart Prize. His book of poems, The New York Editions, won the Poets Out Loud prize, and his earlier book of poems, The Apartment of Tragic Appliances, was a Lambda Finalist for Best Gay Poetry. His widely reviewed book Queer Optimism: Lyric Personhood and Other Felicitous Persuasions (University of Minnesota Press, 2008). offers new readings of the poetry of Emily Dickinson, Hart Crane, Elizabeth Bishop, and Jack Spicer. He received his Ph.D in English from The Johns Hopkins University. He is the recipient of multiple residencies at Yaddo and the James Merrill House.
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