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 Erwin Piscator's Dramatic Workshop and The Neighborhood Playhouse, which led 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 collection, Time and Fevers, was a 2007 recipient of an Eric Hoffer Award for Excellence in Independent Publishing and also won the “Writer’s Digest” Award for Self-Published Books in Poetry. An earlier collection, Murderer's Day, was awarded the Verna Emery Poetry Prize and published by Purdue University Press. Other collections include Reflections in a Doubtful I, The Ideologues, The Journey, Manhattan Spleen: Prose Poems, 50 Poems, and The Poor Boy and Other Poems.

Schorb's work has appeared in The Yale Review, The Southern Review, Agenda (UK), The Virginia Quarterly Review, Stand (UK), The Chicago Review, Poetry Salzburg Review (AU), The Sewanee Review, Queens Quarterly (CA), Oxford Poetry (UK), The American Scholar, OffCourse, Sand Journal (DE), and The Hudson Review, among others.

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, and later, A Portable Chaos won the Eric Hoffer Award for Fiction. Most recently, his R&R, a Sex Comedy was awarded the Beverly Hills Book Award for Humor.

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 the Academy of American Poets, and the Poetry Society of America.