Creative Writing Faculty: Cornelius Eady

Cornelius Eady is the author of seven books of poetry: Brutal Imagination (2001), a National Book Award finalist; The Autobiography of a Jukebox (1997) reissued in 2007; You Don’t Miss Your Water (1995); The Gathering of My Name (1991); Boom, Boom, Boom (1988); Victims of the Latest Dance Craze (1986), winner of the 1985 Lamont Prize from the Academy of American Poets; and Kartunes (1980). He is also co-editor with Toi Derricote of Gathering Ground (2006).

Eady’s work in theater includes the libretto for an opera, “The Running Man,” a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama in 1999. His play, Brutal Imagination, won Newsday’s Oppenheimer Award in 2002.

He has received the Prairie Schooner Strousse Award and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation.

Born in Rochester, New York, Eady has taught poetry at SUNY Stony Brook, Sarah Lawrence College, New York University, The Writer’s Voice, the 92nd Street Y, The College of William and Mary, Sweet Briar, and American University. In 1996 Eady and poet Toi Derricote founded Cave Canem, a non-profit organization for black poets. Eady is Associate Professor of English at Notre Dame.

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