B. 1976

Jason Schneiderman earned an MFA from New York University, a fellowship from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and a PhD from the Graduate Center of CUNY. He is the author of the poetry collections Hold Me Tight (2020), Primary Source (2016), Striking Surface (2010), winner of the 2009 Richard Snyder Publication Prize from Ashland Poetry Press, and Sublimation Point (2004).

Structured around an eight-part elegy for his mother, Striking Surface references both ancient myths and contemporary culture. A Publishers Weekly reviewer identified “a laconic figure whose grave reserve reveals itself in carefully stripped-down language, using only the most common American words.”

Schneiderman’s poems have appeared in the anthologies Best American Poetry 2005, Bend, Don’t Shatter: Poets on the Beginning of Desire (2004), and The Penguin Book of the Sonnet (2001), and his translations have been published in An Anthology of Contemporary Russian Women Poets (2005). His essays have appeared in the American Poetry Review and elsewhere. He edited QUEER: A Reader for Writers (2016). He teaches at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY.