Sean Petrie is an award-winning poet, author, and professor.

As a founder of Typewriter Rodeo, Sean has written more than 30,000 poems for people all across the country. With reactions like this:

“Sean always lifts the mood.”

~ Naomi Shihab Nye, U.S. Young People’s Poet Laureate

Sean’s kids’ books include the new poetry collection Universe at the Tips of Your Toes, the illustrated Pet Poems (also not just pets) and its companion workbook, Pet Poems Plus: How to write your own poems about pets (both Moonbeam Children’s Award-winners), as well as the Jett Ryder 4-book sports adventure series (JollyFish Press). He has also written numerous educational books for Fountas & Pinnell and Heinneman Publishing.

Sean’s adult books include the poetry collections Typewriter Rodeo (Andrews McMeel Universal), Cracked & Broken (Burlwood Books), and Listen to the Trees (Documentary Media; Independent Publisher Book Award), and an essay in the creative-writing anthology, Spinning Toward the Sun: Essays on Writing, Resilience, & the Creative Life (Burlwood).

Sean has an MFA in Writing for Kids from Vermont College, a law degree from Stanford, and a Plan II degree from the University of Texas (where he co-founded the Camp Texas program). He is a writing professor at the University of Texas, teaches creative writing workshops for kids, and owns a metric ton of typewriters.

You can hear Sean’s weekly radio poems on Austin NPR and his work has appeared in The Texas Observer, Dallas Morning News and other outlets.

Book Sean for a school visit (virtual options available) at Find An Author

Sean’s talk for CreativeMornings, on the courage to be your (creative) self:

Profile by Texas Country Reporter, on Sean’s work with Typewriter Rodeo: