Full-Time Faculty

Jane Shore
M.F.A., University of Iowa, 1971.

Jane Shore teaches Creative Writing (Poetry), Modern and Contemporary Poetry, (with an interest in Elizabeth Bishop) and related subjects. She has received  fellowships from The John Simon Guggenheim Foundation; The Radcliffe Institute; she was an Alfred Hodder Fellow at Princeton ; a Goodyear Fellow at The Foxcroft School; and she twice received grants from The National Endowment for the Arts. In 1989, she was a Jenny McKeen Moore Writer at The George Washington University where she has taught ever since.

Books:

Shore’s first book of poems, EYE LEVEL, won the 1977 Juniper Prize (U Mass. Press); her second book, THE MINUTE HAND, won the 1986 Lamont Poetry Prize, awarded by The Academy of American Poets (U Mass. Press); MUSIC MINUS ONE was a 1996 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist in Poetry (Picador USA.)  HAPPY FAMILY was published by Picador USA in 1999.

Other publications:

Her poems have been published in numerous anthologies and magazines, including THE NORTON ANTHOLOGY, THE NEW YORKER, POETRY, THE NEW REPUBLIC,  THE YALE REVIEW, and PLOUGHSHARES (where she has twice served as a guest poetry editor.)