Derek Sheffield

Derek Sheffield won the North American Review's 2003 James Hearst Poetry Prize judged by Li-Young Lee. His poems have recently appeared in the online journals Literary Salt and the Salt River Review, and in the Bellingham Review and the Crab Creek Review. His interview of William Stafford's family is in the Spring 2003 issue of the Seattle Review. Blue Begonia Press published his chapbook, A Mouthpiece of Thumbs, in 2000. He can be reached at dereksheffield@hotmail.com.