Seth Abramson

Seth Abramson is author of Northerners (Western Michigan University Press, 2011), winner of the 2010 Green Rose Prize from New Issues Poetry & Prose, and The Suburban Ecstasies (Ghost Road Press, 2009). He is also a contributing author to The Creative Writing MFA Handbook (Continuum, 2008). In 2008 he was awarded the J. Howard and Barbara M.J. Wood Prize by Poetry. His poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Best New Poets 2008, American Poetry Review, Washington Square, Bat City Review, and New American Writing. He reviews contemporary poetry collections for The Huffington Post and regularly publishes essays and research on graduate creative writing programs in Poets & Writers. A graduate of Harvard Law School and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he is currently a doctoral student in English Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.