Philip Brady

Philip Brady's next book is a collection of essays, By Heart:
Reflections of a Rust-Belt Bard, forthcoming from University of Tennessee Press in 2008. His latest book of poems is Fathom, (Word Press, 2007). His memoir, To Prove My Blood: A Tale of Emigrations and the Afterlife appeared from Ashland Poetry Press in 2003, and Weal was the 1999 Winner of the Snyder Prize from Ashland University Press. His first book, Forged Correspondences (New Myths), was chosen for Ploughshares Editors' Shelf by Maxine Kumin. He also co-edited, with James F. Carens, Critical Essays on Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Twayne Publishers). Brady earned his B.A. from Bucknell University, M.A.s from the University of Delaware and San Francisco State University, and a Ph.D. from Binghamton University. He has won five Ohio Arts Council Individual Artists Awards, a Thayer Fellowship from New York State, and residencies at Yaddo, the Headlands Center for the Arts, the Ragdale Foundation, the Hambidge Center, the Tyrone Guthrie Center in Ireland, Fundacion Valparaiso in Spain, Hawthornden Castle in Scotland, and the Soros Centre for the Arts in the Czech Republic. Brady has taught at the National University of Zaire, University College Cork in Ireland, and on the faculty of Semester at Sea. Currently, he is a professor of English at Youngstown State University, where he directs the YSU Poetry Center and plays in the New-Celtic band, Brady's Leap.