Sean Enright

Sean Enright was born in Washington DC and grew up in Maryland. He has lived in Athens, Greece, Evanston, IL, Alexandria VA, Hoboken NJ, Brooklyn, and Manhattan, and currently resides in Kensington, MD.

In the past, Enright taught fiction workshops in the MFA graduate creative writing program at the University of Maryland, as well as undergraduate fiction workshops there, and poetry and other writing workshops at the Writer's Center in Bethesda, Trinity College in Washington, DC and Montgomery College.

In June 2024, Enright a volume of poetry, MY MOTHER'S TREE, available on Amazon in a print version.

His previous volumes of poetry (all available on Amazon) are:

Legends of 1425 Sherman Avenue (2019)

The Beautiful Ones (2017)

The Intelligence Officer Prepares to Enter Heaven (2016)

Bob Dylan Sleeping (2014)

My People: Selected Poems, 1990-2012 (2012)

In April 2024, Enright selected, edited, and published THERE IS NO REASON FOR REASON: Letters from Joe: Illustrations, Ephemera, and Text Selections from Letters by Joseph Purdy: 1980-2002.

In January of 2021, he published CHEKHOV IN REHAB AND OTHER STORIES, available on Amazon in a print version.

In October 2012, his novel, NEARLY TRUE, was made available on Amazon in a print version and a Kindle version.

In 2001 he published a novel, Goof and Other Stories - it was an Editor's Choice in The Baltimore Sun that summer.

Enright's self-produced and performed album of original songs, WATERING THE FISH, was released in December 2023 on Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Music, YouTube Music, and a variety of other online streaming platforms.

A follow-up album, BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN KILLED MY CAT, was released in December 2024 and is also widely available on most major streaming platforms.

His poems, essays and translations have appeared in TriQuarterly, Threepenny Review, The Sewanee Review, The Kenyon Review, Verse, Tikkun, Provincetown Arts, The American Scholar, The Southern Poetry Review, Another Chicago Magazine, The Nebraska Review, Poet Lore, America, Garagoyle, The Journal (OSU), The Innisfree Poetry Journal, The Cumberland Poetry Review, The Midwest Quarterly, Graham House Review, The Midland Review, Sonoma Mandala, Hubbub, The Laurel Review, Karamu, Nightsun, New Age Magazine and NEBO: A Literary Review.

Enright was named a semi-finalist in the National Playwright's Contest at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center for his play about the Lincoln assassination called The Third Walking Gentleman. He has also written Home for the Holocaust, a family tragicomedy set in the suburbs about a returning prodigal son and a mysterious bioterrorist plot. His one-act play, Atomic Dog, was staged by the Econo-Art Theatre Company of Chicago in 1987, and another one act play, Jim Thorpe is the Cornetist of This Band, was published in the music magazine ASYMPTOTE in 1988.

Enright's second collection of poems, My People, was a Finalist for the Washington Prize at the Washington Writers Publishing House in 2000. Cool Ghosts, his first collection of poems, was a Finalist in Texas Tech First Book Series in 1994. The Southern Poetry Review twice selected individual poems as Finalists for the Guy Owens Poetry Prize, in 1999 and 1998.

Enright has an M.F.A, Writing from the University of Maryland, and a B.A. in English from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.

He served as a speechwriter for Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley from 2013-2014, and as a speechwriter for Johns Hopkins University President Ron Daniels from 2014-2015.