Philip BradyPhilip Brady's newest book is The Elsewhere: Poems & Poetics (Broadstone, 2021). He is the author of two essay collections, Phantom Signs and By Heart from the University of Tennessee Press; a book-length poem, To Banquet withthe Ethiopians, a memoir, To Prove My Blood, and three previous books of poetry. He has edited a critical book on James Joyce and two anthologies of contemporary poetry.
Brady's work has received the Snyder Prize from Ashland Poetry Press; a
ForeWord Magazine Gold Medal; an Ohioana Poetry Award; the Ohio Governor's Award; six Individual Artist Fellowships from the Ohio Arts Council; and Thayer and Newhouse Fellowships from New York State. An essay earned Notable recognition in
Best American Essays. He has held residencies at Yaddo, the Headlands Center for the Arts, the Ragdale Foundation, the Hambidge Center, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Tyrone Guthrie Center in Ireland, Fundacion Valparaiso in Spain, Hawthornden Castle in Scotland, and the Soros Centre for the Arts in the Czech Republic. Brady has taught at University College Cork, on Semester at Sea, at the University of Ibadan, and as a Peace Corps Volunteer at the University of Lubumbashi in the Congo. He is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Youngstown State University, where he founded the YSU Poetry Center and co-founded the NEOMFA. Currently, he is Executive Director of Etruscan Press and serves on the MFA faculty of Wilkes University. For more information please visit www.philipbrady.com
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