S. A. Stirnemann was born in Tennessee and grew up in Detroit. Now living in central Florida, Stirnemann was the editor of the South Florida Poetry Review for almost ten years and taught in the English department at Florida Atlantic University. Stirnemann is currently editing and putting together a book of poems dedicated to Philip Levine, “When Detroit.” Stirnemann’s poems have appeared in Descant, New Mexico Humanities Review, Ploughshares, the Southern Poetry Review, and others.
