Shara McCallum

Shara McCallum is an American poet. She was awarded a 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry. McCallum is the author of four poetry collections. She currently lives in Pennsylvania.
Life and work.
McCallum was born in Kingston, Jamaica to an African Jamaican father and a Venezuelan mother. Her family migrated to the United States when she was nine. She graduated from the University of Miami, from the University of Maryland with an M.F.A., and from Binghamton University in New York with a PhD. She has taught at the Stonecoast MFA program.
McCallum directs the Stadler Center for Poetry and taught creative writing and literature at Bucknell University. McCallum is now a professor of English at Penn State University. She lives in Pennsylvania with her family.
McCallum's work has appeared in "The Antioch Review", "Callaloo", "Chelsea", "The Iowa Review", "Verse", "Creative Nonfiction", "Seneca Review", and "Witness".
Publications.
Full-length poetry collections
Nonfiction
Anthology publications