Steven Sherrill has been making trouble with words since 8^th grade, when he was suspended from school for two weeks for a story he wrote. He dropped out of school in the 10^th grade, ricocheted around for years, eventually earning a Welding Diploma from Mitchell Community College, which circuitously to an MFA in Poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.

Steven Sherrill has been making trouble with words since 8^th grade, when he was suspended from school for two weeks for a story he wrote. He dropped out of school in the 10^th grade, ricocheted around for years, eventually earning a Welding Diploma from Mitchell Community College, which circuitously to an MFA in Poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.

 

Now, Steven is an Associate Professor of English and Integrative Arts at Penn State University, Altoona, where he teaches, paints, and captains the Allegheny Bilge Rats Shanty Choir. He has three novels and a book of poems in the world.  There are other books in the works, paintings always underway, much musical silliness underway, and seventeen ukuleles in the house, and 750 vintage wooden crutches in his basement.