Philip Brady, Executive Director
educator, poet, writer, and performer
His most recent books are By Heart: Reflections of a Rust Belt Bard (University of Tennessee Press, 2008), winner of the 2009 Essay Book of the Year Award from Foreword Magazine, and Fathom, a collection of poems (Word Press, 2007).
His memoir, To Prove My Blood: A Tale of Emigrations & the Afterlife appeared in Ashland Poetry Press in 2003, and Weal (Ashland Poetry Press, 2000) was the 1999 winner of the Snyder Prize from Ashland Poetry Press. Maxin Kumin chose his first book, Forged Correspondences (New Myths, 1996), for Ploughshares Editors’ Shelf. Brady also co-edited, with James F. Carens, Critical Essays on Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Twayne Publishers, 1998).
Brady earned his BA from Bucknell University, MAs from the University of Delaware and San Francisco State University, and a PhD from Binghamton University. He has won an Ohioana Poetry Award, five Ohio Arts Council Individual Artists Awards, Thayer and Newhouse Fellowships from New York State, and residencies at Yaddo, the Headlands Center for the Arts, the Ragdale Foundation, the Hambidge Center,the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, 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, and on 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. He also serves on the low-residency MFA faculty of Wilkes University.
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