Sean Hill

Born and raised in Milledgeville, Georgia, Sean Hill has an MFA from the University of Houston. He has received fellowships and grants from Cave Canem, the Bush Foundation, The MacDowell Colony, the University of Wisconsin, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Jerome Foundation, and Stanford University where he was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming inCallaloo, Ploughshares, Pleiades, Crab Orchard Review, DIAGRAM, Tin House and other literary journals, and in the anthologies Blues Poems, Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem’s First Decade, The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South, and Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry. In 2008, the University of Georgia Press published his first book, Blood Ties & Brown Liquor. He lives in Bemidji, Minnesota.