Peter Jay Shippy

Peter Jay Shippy is a poet who has published five books, including Kaputniks (Saturnalia Books, 2021). He has received the Iowa Poetry Prize for Thieves' Latin and a Gertrude Stein Award. He has been featured twice in The Best American Poetry series and has held fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. He teaches at Emerson College, where he also earned his BFA, and lives in Boston.