Winner of two 2020 Royal Dragonfly Book Awards in the Ebooks Category:
Best Illustrations: 2nd Place
Picture Books Ages 6 and Older: Honorable Mention
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Surgeon, poet, dad, husband, writer of chidren's books, in no particular order.
Background
Information
Dr. Steven Clark Cunningham was born in Denver, Colorado. After graduating from Creighton University with majors in chemistry and Spanish, he attended medical school at George Washington University in Washington, DC. Having finished his residency in general surgery at the University of Maryland and a fellowship in surgery of the liver and pancreas at Johns Hopkins University, he is currently working as Director in Pancreatic and Hepatobiliary Surgery at Saint Agnes Hospital and Cancer Institute in Baltimore, MD. Dr Cunningham's List of medical writings can be found on his website, www.StevenClarkCunningham.com.
He has served as a contributing editor of Maryland Poetry Review, and his poems have appeared in Maryland Poetry Review, The New Physician (winner of literary arts contest), Chimeras, WordHouse: Baltimore’s Literary Calendar, the anthology Function At The Junction #2 (Electric Press, 1997), the cookbook Pasta Poetics (ed. Matt Hohner, 1997), and the anthology Poems for Chromosomes (Watermark Press, 1998).
Dinosaur Name Poems (Three Conditions Press, 2009) is his first full-length book of children's poetry.
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Birth Place
Denver, CO
Accomplishments
2009 Moonbeam Award in both Children's Poetry and Spanish-Language Book categories for his first book, "Dinosaur Name Poems".