ABOUT

Steve Scafidi is the author of Sparks from a Nine-Pound Hammer (Louisiana State University Press, 2001), For Love of Common Words (LSU 2006), The Cabinetmaker’s Window (LSU 2014), To the Bramble and the Briar (University of Arkansas Press, 2014), a chapbook, Songs for the Carry-On (Q Avenue Press, 2013), and The Appalachian Sea (LSU 2025). He has won the Larry Levis Reading Prize, the James Boatwright Prize and the Miller Williams Prize. He has taught at several universities including Arizona State University and Johns Hopkins University. He works full-time as a cabinetmaker in an old dairy barn with a volunteer pumpkin plant growing by the front door.

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