Sean Vernon

Sean Vernon is a singer/songwriter and poet with an MFA from Writers' Workshop in Iowa City. His humorous essays have been published in Smithsonian, Backpacker and Notre Dame Magazines. His specialty is setting poems to music and his settings include poets Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost and four Williams: Blake, Yeats, Wordsworth and Shakespeare. He has 8 albums to his credit, two of which are his original songs. For Blanket of Stars, his first book, he teamed up with award-winning author Jana Laiz and illustrator Anastasiia Kuusk.