Sharon Cumberland

Sharon Cumberland is Professor Emeritus of English at Seattle University, where she directed the Creative Writing Program and taught poetry writing and American literature. She has published scholarly work in orality and literacy studies, new medi, and fan fiction. She spent her first sabbatical year in the Media Studies Program at M.I.T. Her chapbooks are The Arithmetic of Mourning from Green Rock Press, Sharon Cumberland Greatest Hits from Pudding House Publications and, with Denis Caswell, CCausmwbeelrlland, from Floating Bridge Press. Her poetry books are Peculiar Honors and Strange with Age, both from Black Heron Press. Her poems have been widely published, and she has won many awards and residencies. She lives in Shoreline, Washington with her husband, the scholar, editor, and letterpress printer James T. Jones.