Steven Cramer is the author of four poetry collections, the most recent, Goodbye to the Orchard (2004), the winner of the Shelia Motton Award from the New England Poetry Club, was named an Honor Book by the Massachusetts Center for the Books. His poems and criticisms have appeared in such journals as The Atlantic Monthly, The Nation, The New Republic, The Paris Review, Poetry, and Triquarterly, as well as in The Autumn House Anthology of Contemporary American Poets and The POETRY Antholog, 1912-2002. A recipient of fellowships from the Massachusetts Artists Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, he directs the low-residency MFA program in creative writing at Lesley University. More information can be found on his website: www.stevencramer.com.
His poem “Orphic” appeared in Issue 21.2 – Summer/Fall 2009.
