Stephen Stepanchev

Stephen Stepanchev

Poet Stephen Stepanchev was born in Mokrin, Serbia, and moved to Chicago at age seven. He earned his BA and MA from the University of Chicago, and served in World War II in the Adjutant General’s Office. He received a Bronze Star for his service. After moving to New York City at war’s end, Stepanchev earned his PhD from New York University. He was the author of numerous collections of poetry including Mining the Darkness (1975), Descent (1988), Seven Horizons (1997), and Beyond the Gate: New and Selected Poems (2005), among others. He also wrote the critical study American Poetry Since 1945 (1966).

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