About
Shamar Hill is a writer whose work moves across poetry, memoir, and the essay, and a fellow of Cave Canem and the New York Foundation for the Arts. He came to poetry from prose, studying fiction with E.L. Doctorow, and holds a BA from The New School and an MFA from NYU.
His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, The Missouri Review, Plume, Poetry Northwest, Southern Humanities Review, Tinderbox, and Washington Square Review, and his essays and reviews in The Jerusalem Post, Lubavitch International, and Jewish Book Council. He is at work on a memoir, In Defiance of All True Things, and a poetry collection, Photographs of an Imagined Childhood.
He has taught creative writing at NYU, The New School, and Hunter College, and to incarcerated youth. He lives in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, with his family.
Machshavah
He founded Machshavah, a salon series that brings writers, scholars, and artists into conversation about Jewish life and ideas. Its inaugural evening at 92NY sold out.
machshavah.orgTeaching
Workshops and classes in poetry and memoir for universities, community organizations, and literary centers.
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He leads Visionary Advisors, a fundraising practice for arts and community organizations, and serves as board president of The Fostering Connection.
Honors
- Cave Canem Fellow2017 to present
- New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow
- Fine Arts Work Center Scholarship2017
- Best of the Net Nomination2016
- Brooklyn Poets Fellowship2016
- Brooklyn Poets Poet of the Week2016
- Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Poetry2015
- Individual Artist Grant, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs2015
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