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SIMON PETER EGGERTSEN was born in Kansas, grew up in
Utah, educated in Virginia and England. After receiving his first degree in literature
and language (BYU), he attended Virginia and Queens’ College, Cambridge, to
study law. His early interest in words developed into a passion for poetry
and he has been writing poems at the age of seven, puns and limericks,
doggerel for the most part. Trained as a lawyer, but his first line specialty
is international public heath. Eggertsen has spent most of his professional
years working and teaching in the area of international public health (the
latter at Harvard and Boston University). He has lived or worked in over 50
countries, an experience providing him with events and imagery which have
inspired most of his poems¾ he composed several
pieces affectionately and vividly evoking the landscapes, natural events and
facts, and customs of the countries he had worked for or lived through. His
pieces have appeared or will in Dialogue, The Salt River Review, The Catholic
News (Trinidad), Wordbridge and The Writers Post. He has won the Poetry Prize
at the Whidbey Island Writers Conference (2008) and was recently named to the
semi-finalist list for the Pablo Neruda Prize in Poetry (Nimrod, 2008). Tel: The Writers Post & literature-in-translation, founded 1999, based in the US.
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