Cornelius Eady

Cornelius Eady is an American poet. His honors include the Prairie Schooner Strousse Award, a Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Award, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Rockefeller Foundation. He has served as director of the Poetry Center at the State University of New York at Stonybrook, and has taught at Sarah Lawrence College, New York University, City College of New York, The Writer’s Voice, The College of William and Mary, and Sweet Briar College. The author of six previous volumes, he currently lives in Columbia, MO, where he holds the Miller Chair in Poetry at University of Missouri.