Richard Siken

Richard Siken’s first poetry collection, Crush, won the 2004 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize, a Lambda Literary Award, and the Thom Gunn Award, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He is a recipient of a Pushcart Prize, two Arizona Commission on the Arts grants, two Lannan Residency Fellowships, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. He lives in Tuscon, Arizona, and is the co-founder and editor of Spork Press. War of the Foxes is his long-awaited second collection of poetry.