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Phone: 509-682-6737
Email: dsheffield@wvc.edu
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Professor of English
Transfer English Division Chair
Co-Advisor: WVC Beyond Recycling
Coordinator: ������ý Visiting Writers Program

Education:
MFA / English (Poetry), University of Washington
MIT / Education, Seattle University
B.A. / English (Creative Writing), University of Washington

Courses Taught:

• English 276: Poetry Writing
• English 275: Fiction Writing
• Northwest Nature Writing: English 135 (Creative Writing), Biology 127 (Northwest Environments) - a learning community
• English 202: Critical Analysis
• English 113: Introduction to Poetry
• English 111: Introduction to Literature
• English 101: Beginning Composition

Publications and Awards:

Derek Sheffield’s collection, (Michigan State University Press, 2021), won the Wheelbarrow Books Poetry Prize judged by Mark Doty. His other books include (Orchises Press, 2013), finalist for the Washington State Book Award, and A Revised Account of the West (Flyway, 2008), winner of the Hazel Lipa Environmental Chapbook Award judged by Debra Marquart. With Simmons Buntin and Elizabeth Dodd, he is coeditor of (Trinity University Press, 2020).

Sheffield's poems have appeared in many literary magazines, including The Southern Review, Poetry, The Georgia Review, Poetry Northwest, Orion, The Gettysburg Review, and AGNI. He has been awarded fellowships from the Spring Creek Project, the Sustainable Arts Foundation, Artist Trust, and the Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest. Other honors include the James Hearst Poetry Prize judged by Li-Young Lee, a finalist selection for the 2018 Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry Prize judged by Vijay Seshadri, and a Special Mention in the 2016 Pushcart Anthology.

Professor Sheffield has won both the Alcoa Excellence in Teaching Award and the Linda Schultz Herzog Faculty Member of the Year Award. He has twice been invited by WVC’s students to be their commencement speaker.