Born and raised in Milledgeville, Georgia, Sean Hill has an MFA from the University of Houston.  He has received fellowships and grants from Cave Canem, the Bush Foundation, The MacDowell Colony, the University of Wisconsin, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Jerome Foundation, and Stanford University where he was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry.  Hill's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Callaloo, Crab Orchard Review, DIAGRAM, The Oxford American, Ploughshares, Poetry, Tin House, and other literary journals, and in the anthologies Blues Poems, Gathering Ground, The Ringing Ear, and Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry.  His first book, Blood Ties & Brown Liquor, was published by the University of Georgia Press in 2008.  In 2009 Hill became an editor at Broadsided Press.  His second collection of poetry, Dangerous Goods, is now available for pre-order from the publisher Milkweed Editions and Amazon.com. He lives in Bemidji, Minnesota, but has moved to Fairbanks, Alaska to join the creative writing faculty at UA-Fairbanks for the 2013-2014 academic year.   

Publications from the past year include:

Short fiction

"They Drove" New England Review Digital, 2013 http://www.nereview.com/2013/08/21they-drove-by-sean-hill/

Poems

"Above It All" Water-Stone Review, 2012

"Postcard to Anna" Poecology, 2012http://poecology.org/issue-2/sean-hill/

Information about my collection of poems

Blood Ties & Brown Liquor can be found at www.seanhillpoetry.com

Dangerous Goods can be pre-ordered at:

http://milweed.org/shop/product/334/dangerous-goods

and

http://www.amazon.com/Dangerous-Goods-Poems-Sean-Hill/dp/1571314571