ATSURO RILEY

Poet

San Francisco, CA
California US
Email: 
atsuro@mindspring.com
Website: 
www.atsuroriley.org

Author's Bio

ROMEY'S ORDER  (University of Chicago Press, 2010)

HEARD-HOARD (University of Chicago Press, 2021) 

Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship

Arts and Letters Award in Literature, American Academy of Arts and Letters

Finalist, PEN America's Voelcker Poetry Award

Alice Fay di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America

Boston Globe "Best Books of 2021" 

Bookworm "Top 10 Books of 2021"

Whiting Award

Kate Tufts Discovery Award

The Believer Poetry Award

Witter Bynner Award from the Library of Congress

Lannan Foundation Literary Fellowship

NEA Fellowship

Wood Prize, Poetry magazine

Pushcart Prize

https://www.atsuroriley.org

The Adroit Journal's essay on Heard-Hoard, by Peter Campion:  https://theadroitjournal.org/2021/11/15/... 

Lana Turner's essay on Heard-Hoard, by Carol Moldaw: https://lanaturnerjournal.com/v/vspfiles...

The Hudson Review's essay on Heard-Hoard, by Meg Schoerke:  https://hudsonreview.com/2022/05/lyric-t...

World Literature Today's essay on Heard-Hoard, by Julian Gewirtz:  https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/202... 

Harvard Review's essay on Heard-Hoard, by Patrick Davis: https://www.harvardreview.org/book-revie... 

Colorado Review's commentary on Heard-Hoard, by Dan Beachy-Quick:  https://coloradoreview.colostate.edu/rev...

Georgia Review's essay on Heard-Hoard & Romey's Order, by Emily Pérez:  https://thegeorgiareview.com/posts/sound...

Blacksmith House Reading: Atsuro Riley & Peter Campion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3nQJIQl5aA 

Poetry Foundation's "Library Book Picks":  https://www.poetryfoundation.org/library...

 

 

 

 

 

 

Literary agent: 
Leslie Shipman @ The Shipman Agency

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:
Home: 100 Poems { ed. Christian Wiman } (Yale University Press, 2021)
,
Radical as Reality: Form and Freedom in American Poetry {Peter Campion, author} (University of Chicago Press, 2019)
,
The Mind Has Cliffs of Fall {ed. Robert Pinsky} (W. W. Norton & Company, 2019)
,
The Fate of Difficulty in the Poetry of Our Time {ed. Altieri, Nace} (Northwestern University Press, 2017)
,
Oxford Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry (Oxford University Press, 2014)
,
Poems of the American South (Alfred A. Knopf, 2014)
,
The Open Door: 100 Poems, 100 Years of POETRY Magazine (University of Chicago Press, 2012)
,
The McSweeney's Book of Poets Picking Poets (McSweeney's Books, 2007)
Books:
Heard-Hoard (University of Chicago Press, 2021)
,
Romey's Order (University of Chicago Press, 2010)
Journals:
Free Verse
,
Kenyon Review
,
McSweeney's
,
Poetry
,
Poetry Daily
,
Poetry Review
,
A Public Space
,
Riddle Fence
,
Southern Cultures
,
The Believer Magazine
,
The New Republic
,
The Threepenny Review
Prizes won: 

Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, Arts and Letters Award in Literature {American Academy of Arts and Letters}, Whiting Writers' Award, Alice Fay di Castagnola Award {Poetry Society of America}, Finalist for PEN America's Voelcker Poetry Award, Boston Globe "Best Books of 2021,"  Bookworm "Top 10 Books of 2021",

Kate Tufts Discovery Award, The Believer Poetry Award, Witter Bynner Award {Library of Congress}, Lannan Literary Fellowship {Lannan Foundation}, Pushcart Prize, Wood Prize {POETRY magazine}, National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship

 

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More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Born in: 
SC
South Carolina
Raised in: 
SC
South Carolina
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Last update: Jan 17, 2024