Stephen Haven

Stephen Haven's book of poems Dust and Bread (Turning Point, 2008) was selected by the Ohio Poetry Association as co-winner in a competition to recognize the best book of poems published by an Ohio poet in 2008. He was named "Co-Ohio Poet of the Year" for 2009. Haven is also the author of one earlier collection of poems, The Long Silence of the Mohawk Carpet Smokestacks (West End Press, 2004), and of the memoir, The River Lock: One Boy's Life along the Mohawk (Syracuse University Press, 2008). The River Lock was nominated for a National Book Award by Syracuse University Press. A review of The River Lock in available online at http://www.contrarymagazine.com/Contrary/Haven.html
Haven published one other title in 2008, a collection of collaborative translations of contemporary Chinese poetry-- The enemy in Defensive Position (with Wang Shouyi and Jin Zhong, Poetry Miscellany Chapbooks, University of Tennessee -- Chattanooga, 2008). He also edited and wrote the introduction for The Poetry of W.D. Snodgrass: Everything Human (University of Michigan Press, 1993).
Haven's poems have appeared in Salmagundi, Parnasus, American Poetry Review, The Southern Review, Literary Imagination, World Literature (Beijing), Image, Crazyhorse, and in many other journals. He has a Ph.D. in American Civilization (literature, intellectual history, and American Painting) from New York University, where he wrote his dissertation under the direction of Harold Bloom, and a Master of Fine Arts in Poetry from the University of Iowa. He is Professor of English and Director of the MFA in Creative Writing Program at Ashland University, where he also directs the Ashland Poetry Press.