Shara McCallum explained

Shara McCallum
Birth Place:Kingston, Jamaica
Alma Mater:University of Miami,
University of Maryland, College Park
Binghamton University
Genre:Poetry
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Notableworks:Madwoman
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Awards:National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship;
OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature for poetry

Shara McCallum is an American poet. She was awarded a 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry.[1] McCallum is the author of four collections of poems, including Madwoman, which won the 2018 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature in the poetry category.[2] She currently lives in Pennsylvania.

Life and work

McCallum was born in Kingston, Jamaica, to an African Jamaican father, Alastair McCallum, and a Venezuelan mother, Migdalia Bertorelli McCallum.[3]

McCallum graduated from the University of Miami, from the University of Maryland[4] with an M.F.A., and from Binghamton University in New York with a PhD.[5] She has taught at the Stonecoast MFA program.[6]

McCallum directs the Stadler Center for Poetry and taught creative writing and literature at Bucknell University.[7] [8] McCallum is now a professor of English at Penn State University. She lives in Pennsylvania with her family.[9]

McCallum's work has appeared in The Antioch Review,[10] [11] Callaloo,[12] Chelsea, The Iowa Review, Verse, Creative Nonfiction, Seneca Review,[13] and Witness. Her poems can be found in a number of journals worldwide in places like the United States, the UK, Israel and Latin America.[14]

Religion

When she was a child, McCallum was raised practicing Rastafari; however when she migrated to the United States she stopped considering herself a member of any religion. Later in life, she converted to Judaism. McCallum was particularly fond of the idea that Judaism held about being part of a larger community than yourself alone. She found inspiration for her poems in the songs and practices, such as myths and rituals, of her religion. McCallum believes that her form of prayer and mediation is poetry.[14]

Honors and awards

Publications

Full-length poetry collections

Nonfiction

Anthology publications

External links

Notes and References

  1. http://www.nea.gov/grants/recent/11grants/litFellows.php National Endowment of the Arts 2011 Poetry Fellows
  2. Web site: OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature. 10 March 2024 . Bocas Lit Fest.
  3. Web site: Shara McCallum. 2020-02-04. Poetry Foundation. en. 2020-02-04.
  4. http://www.urhome.umd.edu/CPMAG/summer01/elegiac.html College Park Magazine | Feature | University of Maryland
  5. Shara McCallum, Poetry, Poems, Bios & More. Poets.org. Retrieved 20 October 2011.
  6. http://usm.maine.edu/stonecoastmfa/faculty/mccallum.html Shara McCallum
  7. http://www.bucknell.edu/x3695.xml From the Director of the Stadler Center for Poetry || Bucknell University
  8. http://www.bucknell.edu/x37417.xml Shara McCallum || Bucknell University
  9. http://www.pw.org/content/shara_mccallum_1 Shara McCallum | Directory of Writers | Poets & Writers
  10. Jamaica, October 18, 1972 . Shara McCallum . . 59 . 2 . Spring 2001 . 281 . 4614160. 10.2307/4614160 .
  11. Penelope . Shara McCallum . The Antioch Review . 62 . 4 . Autumn 2004 . 707 . 4614740. 10.2307/4614740 .
  12. McCallum . Shara . Muscular Music (review) . Callaloo . 2002 . 25 . 2 . 693–694 . 10.1353/cal.2002.0090 . 161249226 . .
  13. Book: The Seneca Review. 1998. Hobart Student Association.
  14. Davis . Todd F. . Embracing Mythologies . Interdisciplinary Literary Studies . 15 September 2015 . 17 . 3 . 440–456 . 10.5325/intelitestud.17.3.0440 .
  15. http://www.alicejamesbooks.org/News&Events/NewsandEvents.html Alice James Books > News & Events
  16. Book: McCallum, Shara, 1972–. Madwoman. 2017. 978-1-938584-28-2. Farmington, Maine. 945949128.