Richard Siken

Richard Siken is a poet, painter, filmmaker, as well as an editor at Spork Press. He is a recipient of two Arizona Commission on the Arts grants, two Lannan Residency Fellowships, and a Literature Fellowship in Poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts. His book Crush won the 2004 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize, the Thom Gunn Award, a Lambda Literary Award, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His most recent book is War of the Foxes (Copper Canyon Press, 2015).