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A widely published fiction writer and poet, Enid Shomer is the author of seven books, most recently the novel The Twelve Rooms of the Nile (Simon & Schuster, 2012, published globally in English). Her work has been collected in more than fifty anthologies and textbooks, including POETRY: A Harper Collins Pocket Anthology, Best American Poetry, and New Stories from the South: The Year’s Best.
Four of her books have been awarded major prizes. For Imaginary Men she received the Iowa Fiction Prize as well as the LSU/Southern Review Prize, both given annually for the best first collection of short fiction by an American author. She received the Gold Medal in Fiction from the State of Florida for Tourist Season (Random House, 2007), and the Washington Prize for Stalking the Florida Panther (The Word Works). Other awards include two fellowships in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts, three fellowships from the State of Florida, the Eunice Tietjens Prize from Poetry, the Celia Wagner Award of the Poetry Society of America, the Randall Jarrell Prize, Wildwood Prize, Eve of St. Agnes Prize, the H.E. Frances Prize, the Iowa Woman Prize, the Emily Clark Balch Prize from Virginia Quarterly Review, the Glenna Luschei Award from Prairie Schooner, and the Guy Owen Poetry Prize from Southern Poetry Review. |
Her poems have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, Paris Review, Best American Poetry, The New Criterion, Kenyon Review, Tikkun, etc. Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker, New Stories from the South, the Year's Best, Modern Maturity, Midstream, New Letters, Prairie Schooner, Shenandoah, Virginia Quarterly Review, etc. Her poem sequence, Pope Joan, was adapted into a dance oratorio by composer Anne LeBaron and choreographer Mark Taylor and premiered in October of 2000.
As a Visiting Writer, Shomer has taught at the University of Arkansas, Florida State University, and the Ohio State University, where she was the Thurber House Writer-in-Residence. Her book reviews and essays have appeared in The New Times Book Review, The Women's Review of Books, and elsewhere.
Two of her books, Stars at Noon and Imaginary Men, were the subject of feature interviews on NPR's Morning Edition and All Things Considered.
In 2002, Shomer became the Poetry Series Editor for her former poetry publisher, the University of Arkansas Press. Recently, she has taught in the low-residency MFA programs at Ashland University and the University of Tampa.
As a Visiting Writer, Shomer has taught at the University of Arkansas, Florida State University, and the Ohio State University, where she was the Thurber House Writer-in-Residence. Her book reviews and essays have appeared in The New Times Book Review, The Women's Review of Books, and elsewhere.
Two of her books, Stars at Noon and Imaginary Men, were the subject of feature interviews on NPR's Morning Edition and All Things Considered.
In 2002, Shomer became the Poetry Series Editor for her former poetry publisher, the University of Arkansas Press. Recently, she has taught in the low-residency MFA programs at Ashland University and the University of Tampa.
