Sharon Doubiago

American Poet

Sharon Doubiago
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Born	Sharon Lura Edens (1941-04-26) April 26, 1941 Long Beach, California
Occupation	Poet and Writer
Language	English
Residence	San Francisco, California
Nationality	American
Education	B.A., M.A., English
Alma mater	California State University, Los Angeles
Children	Daniel, Shawn
Website
www.sharondoubiago.com

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Sharon Doubiago is an American Poet, writer and essayist who has published more than 20 volumes of poetry, three volumes of short stories, a two-volume memoir, and numerous essays.

Biography

Sharon Doubiago was born and raised in Southern California, but in order to be a poet her main home for many years has been her vehicles—an Ambassador station wagon named Roses, a Dodge van named Psyche, and a Ford conversion van named Valentine. A vagabond poet in the ancient tradition, her roads have been mainly of the West Coast, San Diego to Seattle (Baja to British Columbia)—most significantly the artist/poet towns of Mendocino, San Francisco, Port Townsend, Portland, Newport, and Ashland. Freed from the onerous burden of making rent, she’s written full time.
She has written two dozen books of poetry and prose, along with almost a hundred essays. Her first publication, the epic poem Hard Country (West End Press) received widespread acclaim and established her reputation as a major American poet. She was an active participant in the second wave of feminism, publishing many articles and essays on women's rights, equality and justice.
Doubiago has taught writing at a number of colleges and universities, including San Francisco State University extension, the University of Denver, University of Wyoming and, for many years, in the University of Minnesota's Split Rock Program. She has also taught poetry at Naropa and in prisons (San Quentin and Monroe, Washington).
For three decades she has worked on Son, a memoir of raising a son and exploration of the mother-son relationship, published chapters of which have been awarded the Tom Robbins’ Literary-Journalism Award, First Place in the Sports News Literary Non-Daily Newspaper Competition, and two Oregon Institute of Literary Art Fellowships. Her published essays range from the personal and creative to the scholarly. A board member of PENOakland she currently lives in San Francisco. Her latest collection of poetry, Naked to the Earth, was completed in San Francisco's legendary North Beach, home of many beloved poets.

Awards

Volume I of Doubiago's memoir, My Father’s Love (Wild Ocean Press), was a finalist in the 2010 Northern California Book Awards in Creative Non-Fiction. Love on the Streets, Selected and New Poems (University of Pittsburgh Press), received the 2009 Glenna Luschei Distinguished Poet Award and was a finalist in the Paterson New Jersey Poetry Prize. Her book-length poem, South America Mi Hija, (University of Pittsburgh Press), was nominated for the National Book Award. Her poetry collection, Psyche Drives the Coast (Empty Bowl Press), was awarded the Hazel Hall Oregon Book Award for Poetry and her story collection, The Book of Seeing With One’s Own Eyes (Graywolf Press) was selected to the Oregon Cultural Heritage Commission’s Literary Oregon, 100 Books, 1800-2000. She holds three Pushcart Prizes for Poetry and Fiction, and is a recipient of the California Arts Council Award.

Selected Works

Poetry:
Hard Country; South America Mi Hija; Psyche Drives the Coast; Body and Soul; Love on the Streets; The Visit; Naked to the Earth
Prose:
The Book of Seeing With One's Own Eyes; El Nino; My Father's Love, Vol. I: Portrait of the Poet as a Young Girl; My Father's Love, Vol. II: The Legacy, Portrait of the Poet as a Woman; My Beard: Memoir Stories

References

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