Vivian Shipley

Vivian Shipley is Connecticut State University Distinguished Professor, Editor Emeritus of Connecticut Review and teaches at SCSU where she was named Faculty Scholar 3 times. Raised in Kentucky, she has a PhD from Vanderbilt and is a member of University of Kentucky's Hall of Distinguished Alumni, the highest honor a graduate can receive. She was awarded the 2015 Hackney Award for Poetry for "Foxfire." She has published 6 chapbooks and 11 books. Perennial (2015, Negative Capability Press)is the 2016-17 Paterson Poetry Prize Finalist and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. The Poet was published in 2015 by Louisiana Literature Press at Southeastern Louisiana University.Nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, her 9th book, All of Your Messages Have Been Erased (2010, Louisiana Literature Press, SLU)was awarded the 2011 Sheila Motton Book Prize from NEPC, The Paterson Award for Sustained Literary Achievement, CT Press Club Award for Best Creative Writing and was a Milt Kessler Poetry Prize and CT Poetry Book Prize Finalist. Recipient of a CT Arts Grant for Poetry, she gives numerous national and state readings. In 2014-15, she gave the Soyka Humanities Fund Reading at Misericordia U, did workshops and readings at U of Central Florida, Alabama Writer's Conclave, Villanova U, MA Poetry Festival, and The Poet's Voice, Darien, CT. Prior to 2014, she has also read at West Point(USMA), Sunken Garden Poetry Festival, UT, UK, U of Hartford, Sacred Heart U, SUNY-Binghamton, West Chester U, Salem State U. She lives in North Haven, CT with her husband, Ed Harris.