Bio:

Dr. Steven Clark Cunningham was born in Denver, Colorado. After graduating from Creighton University with majors in chemistry and Spanish, he attended medical school at George Washington University in Washington, DC. Having finished his residency in general surgery at the University of Maryland, and fellowships in oncology research and pancreatic & hepatobiliary surgery, at Johns Hopkins University, he is currently Co-Director of Pancreatic and Hepatobiliary Surgery at Saint Agnes Hospital in Baltimore.

He has served as a contributing editor of Maryland Poetry Review, and his poems have appeared in Maryland Poetry Review, The New Physician (winner of literary arts contest), Chimeras, WordHouse: Baltimore’s Literary Calendar, the anthology Function At The Junction #2 (Electric Press, 1997), the cookbook Pasta Poetics (ed. Matt Hohner, 1997), and the anthology Poems for Chromosomes (Watermark Press, 1998).

Dinosaur Name Poems (Three Conditions Press, 2009) is his first full-length book of children's poetry. It was translated by Myriam Gorospe (bilingual English / Spanish), and received two 2009 Moonbeam Awards in the Children's Poetry and Spanish Language Book categories.



Writer
PAL
Member since 2006
Region: Maryland/Delaware/West Virginia

Contact Information

Email:  scunning@stagnes.org
Website:  http://www.DinosaurNamePoems.org

Published In Children's Market: Yes
Available for Speaking Engagements? Yes