E.M. Schorb

E. M. Schorb attended New York University, where he fell in with a group of actors and became a professional actor. During this time, he attended several top-ranking drama schools, which led to industrial films and eventually into sales and business. He has remained in business on and off ever since, but started writing poetry when he was a teenager and has never stopped. His latest collection, Murderer's Day, was awarded the Verna Emery Poetry Prize and published by Purdue University Press. Schorb's work has appeared widely in such literary journals as The Yale Review, The Southern Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Chicago Review, The Sewanee Review, and The American Scholar.

At the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2000, his novel, Paradise Square, was the winner of the Grand Prize for fiction from the International eBook Award Foundation. Scenario for Scorsese, his first novel, was also a nominee. He is also the author of A Fable & Other Prose Poems, A Portable Chaos, 50 Poems, and The Poor Boy and Other Poems.

Schorb has received fellowships from the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center and the North Carolina Arts Council; grants from the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, the Carnegie Fund, Robert Rauschenberg & Change, Inc. (for drawings), and The Dramatists Guild, among others. He is a member of PEN America, The Authors Guild, the Academy of American Poets, and the Poetry Society of America.