STEVEN SCHROEEDER

Steven Schroeder received his Ph.D. in Ethics and Society from the University of Chicago in 1982. He grew up in the Texas Panhandle, and his poetry continues to be rooted in the experience of the Plains. He is the co-founder, with composer Clarice Assad, of the Virtual Artists Collective (a "virtual" gathering of musicians, poets, and visual artists) and (when the pieces fall into place) teaches peace studies, philosophy, and poetry at Shenzhen University in China. Whether the pieces fall in place or not, he lives and writes in Chicago and on the road to Texas. His work has appeared in Concho River Review, The Cresset, Druskininkai Poetic Fall 2005, Georgetown Review, Halcyon, Karamu, Mid-America Poetry Review, Poetry East, Petroglyph, Rhino, Shichao, Sichuan Literature, Texas Review, The Texas Poetry Calendar, and other literary journals. Translations of his poetry have appeared in two Chinese journals and in the annual publication of the Druskininkai Poetic Fall festival in Lithuania. He was just first prize winner in Rambunctious Review's 2005 poetry contest.

Fallen Prose was published by Virtual Artists Collective in 2006.
Six Stops South was published by Cherry Grove Collections in 2009.