Steven Schroeder was born in Wichita Falls, Texas, and grew up northwest of Amarillo in Oldham County. He earned his undergraduate degree in psychology at Valparaiso University in Indiana and went on to earn a Ph.D. in Ethics and Society from the University of Chicago in 1982. He is the co-founder, with composer Clarice Assad, of the Virtual Artists Collective (a “virtual” gathering of musicians, poets, and visual artists that has published forty collections of poetry since it began in 2004 and continues to publish 5-7 collections each year). From 2002-2009, after twenty years of teaching and working in the peace movement in Texas, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, and Ohio, he taught philosophy, poetry, and peace studies at Shenzhen University in China. He currently teaches at the University of Chicago in Asian Classics and the Basic Program of Liberal Education for Adults. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in After Hours, AmarilloBay, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, Concho River Review, the Christian Science Monitor, the Cresset, Druskininkai Poetic Fall 2005, Georgetown Review, the Journal of the American Medical Association, Karamu, Macao Closer, Mid-America Poetry Review, Poetry East, Poetry Macao, Rambunctious Review, Rhino, Seminary Ridge Review, Shichao, Sichuan Literature, Texas Review, TriQuarterly and other literary journals. His most recent poetry collections are Turn and (with Debby Sou Vai Keng) a guest giving way like ice melting: thirteen ways of looking at laozi. Four Truths, a collection of three short stories and a drama in verse (with paintings by Debby Sou Vai Keng) was published by Wipf and Stock in 2011. A new poetry collaboration with David Breeden, Raging for the Exit, is forthcoming from Wipf & Stock in early autumn.
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