Brendan Galvin

Brendan Galvin was born in Everett, Massachusetts. He earned a BS from Boston College, an MA from Northeastern University, and an MFA and a PhD from the University of Massachusetts. He is the author of more than 15 books of poetry, including Winter Oysters (1983); Hotel Malabar (1998), winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize; Habitat (2005), a finalist for the National Book Award; Ocean Effects (2007); and Egg Island Almanac (2017), which won the Crab Orchard Series. Galvin’s poems have appeared in dozens of magazines, including the New Yorker, Poetry, the Atlantic, the Paris Review, and the Kenyon Review. His critical essays have appeared in the Georgia Review, Ploughshares, Shenandoah, Prairie Schooner, Southern Review, Tar River Poetry, and elsewhere.