Brenda Shaughnessy (born 1970) is an Asian American poet most known for her poetry books Our Andromeda and So Much Synth.

Additionally, The New York Times and Publishers Weekly named So Much Synth as one of the best poetry collections of 2016.

Shaughnessy works as an Associate Professor of English in the MFA Creative Writing program at Rutgers University–Newark.

[4][5] Her fifth book of poems, The Octopus Museum, was published by Knopf in 2019.

[5][7] She lives in Verona, New Jersey with her husband, the poet and editor Craig Morgan Teicher, and their children.