Sean Webb

 Sean Webb has received many honors for his work, including fellowships from The Arizona Commission on the Arts and the Utah Arts Council. Most recently, he won the Tucson Festival of Books Literature Prize for Poetry, the Asheville Poetry Review William Matthews Poetry Prize, the Gemini Magazine Poetry Open, and the Passages North Neutrino Prize. He received an MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop and was selected by Grace Paley to serve as Poet Laureate of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania in 2005. His work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies including december magazine, The North American Review, Prairie Schooner, The Quarterly, Nimrod, The Greensboro Review, The Seattle Review, Philadelphia Stories, and Schuylkill Valley Journal. His chapbook "The Constant Parades" was selected by Afaa Weaver as a runner up in the Moonstone Arts Chapbook contest and his chapbook "What Cannot Stay Small Forever" was a runner up in the Finishing Line Press chapbook competition. Sean also has extensive experience as a writer and editor working in medical and scientific fields for universities, research organizations, and medical publishers. He currently lives in Wilkes-Barre and works as the managing editor and chief lexicographer for a line of medical dictionary products.