She graduated from Yale University, and Columbia University.

She lives in Long Island, New York, with her son, and is currently Director of the MFA in Creative Writing & Literature program as well as an assistant professor at Stony Brook Southampton.

Her work has appeared in Ploughshares,^[1] Paris Review,^[2][3] Southwest Review,^[4] Texas Review and Western Humanities Review.^[5]

• 2009 New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship in poetry
• 2008 Whiting Award
• 2005 Barnard Women Poets Prize
• Bernard F. Conners Prize for Poetry, Paris Review
• Robert H. Winner Memorial Award, Poetry Society of America.
• Poets Out Loud Prize

• "Dependent Clause", Huffington Post
• "Ash Grove of Ash", Drunken boat
• "104°". Ploughshares. Winter 2000. Archived from the original on November 4, 2007.
• Thaw. Fordham Univ Press. 2001. ISBN 978-0-8232-2169-1.
• Orient Point. W.W. Norton & Co. 2007. ISBN 978-0-393-33035-9.
• Bar Book: Poems and Otherwise. W. W. Norton & Company. 2010. ISBN 978-0-393-07217-4.

Anthologies edit

• Paul Muldoon; David Lehman, eds. (2008). "Hate Poem". The best American poetry, 2005. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-7432-5738-1.

• Profile at The Whiting Foundation
• 'A Review of Julie Sheehan’s "Bar Book"', Fogged Clarity, Scott Hightower