Sam Witt was born in Wimbledon, England and lived there until the age of seven, at which time his family moved to America,
where they lived in North Carolina and then Virginia. After graduation from the University of Virginia and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Witt lived and worked as a free-lance journalist in San Francisco for several years, publishing in such magazines as Computerworld, the San Francisco Chronicle, Salon and Wired. His first book of poetry, Everlasting Quail, was selected by Carol Frost to win the Katherine Nason Bakeless First Book Prize in 2000, sponsored by Breadloaf. Everlasting Quail was published by UPNE the following year, and he received a Fulbright Fellowship to live and write in Saint Petersburg, Russia for a year. Witt has participated in poetry festivals at Druskininkai and Vilnius at the invitation of the Lithuanian government and has been a resident at the Breadloaf Writers’ Conference and at Yaddo. His poems have been published in Virginia Quarterly, Harvard Review, Georgia Review, Denver Quarterly, Colorado Review, Fence, New England Review, among other journals, and in the anthologies The New Young American Poets and The Iowa Anthology of New American Poetries. Witt has taught at the University of Iowa, Harvard University, the University of Missouri Kansas-City, Whitman College, and other institutions. His second book, Sunflower Brother, won the Cleveland State University Press Open Book competition for 2006, and was published in 2007. Witt is currently teaching at Framingham State University. His website is here and he may be contacted here. ---------
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