Steven Cunningham

A member of the American Academy of Religion, Dr. Steven Clark Cunningham was born in Denver, Colorado.A graduate of CreightonUniversity, he completed medical school at George Washington University, residency in general surgery at the University of Maryland, and a fellowship in surgery of the liver and pancreas at Johns Hopkins University. He currently serves as Director of Pancreatic and Hepatobiliary Surgery and Director of Research at Ascension Saint Agnes Hospital in Baltimore, MD, and is currently completing his master’s degree in religion at Harvard University, focusing on religious literacy among healthcare providers.

He has served as a contributing editor of Maryland Poetry Review, and his poems have appeared in numerous anthologies and periodicals. His first book of children's poetry, Dinosaur Name Poems / Poems de Nombres de Dinosaurios (Three Conditions Press, 2009), won the 2009 Moonbeam Award in both the Children's Poetry and the Spanish Language categories. His second book, Your Body Sick and Well: How Do You Know? (Three Conditions Press, 2020), was awarded 1st Place in Children's Nonfiction at the 26th Annual CIPA EVVY Awards Contest, sponsored by the Colorado Independent Publishers Association, and a Gold Medal in the 14th Annual Moonbeam Awards. It was also a Finalist in the 14th Annual National Indie Excellence Awards