Ephraim Scott Sommers is a poet and singer-songwriter from Atascadero, California.
Most recently, his first book of poems, The Night We Set the Dead Kid on Fire, was awarded the 2016 Patricia Bibby First Book Award and was published by Tebot Bach
Press in February of 2017. He has been featured on NPR. Recent poems, stories, and
essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal, Cream City Review, Minnesota Review, Prairie Schooner, TriQuarterly,
Verse Daily, and elsewhere. Ephraim received his Ph.D. from Western Michigan University.
"My Sister Sings Reba at Forty-Three" in Aquifer: Florida Review Online
"I Won't Be Able to Say This When He's Dead" in Painted Bride Quarterly
"Up Against It" in One Throne Magazine
WRIT307: Intro to Fiction Writing
WRIT316: Intro to Poetry Writing
WRIT351: Creative Non-Fiction Writing
WRIT510: Advanced Creative Non-Fiction Writing
WRIT516: Advanced Poetry Writing
ENGL200: Literature of Resistance and Rupture
ENGL200: Contemporary World Poetry
