Penchants & Places: Essays and Criticism

Brad Leithauser was born in Detroit and graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Law School. He is the author of the novels Seaward (1993), Hence (1989), and Equal Distance (1985), and of three volumes of poetry -- The Mail from Anywhere (1990), Cats of the Temple (1986), and Hundreds of Fireflies (1982) -- and is the editor of The Norton Book of Ghost Stories (1993). He is the recipient of many awards for his writing, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Ingram Merrill Grant, and a MacArthur Fellowship. He teaches at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts, where he lives with his wife, the poet Mary Jo Salter, and their two daughters, Emily and Hilary.

Brad Leithauser teaches at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts.