Atsuro Riley

Atsuro Riley is an American writer.

Riley is the author of the poetry collections ''Heard-Hoard'' (University of Chicago Press, 2021) and '''''Romey's Order'' (University of Chicago Press, 2010).

In 2023, Riley was named a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow and winner of the Arts and Letters Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

''Heard-Hoard''''' was the winner of the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America and a finalist for the PEN/Voelcker Poetry Award; it was named a 'Best Book of 2021' by ''The Boston Globe'' and a 'Top 10 Book of 2021' by ''Bookworm''.

'''''Romey's Order''''' received the Whiting Award, the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, ''The Believer'' Poetry Award, and the Witter Bynner Award from the Library of Congress. Riley's work has been awarded the Lannan Foundation Literary Fellowship, the Pushcart Prize, the Wood Prize from ''Poetry'' magazine, and a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship.

Poems appear in ''A Public Space'', ''Poetry (magazine)'', ''The Kenyon Review'', ''McSweeney's'', ''The Believer,'' ''The Threepenny Review'', ''The New Republic'', Free Verse Journal, Riddle Fence (Canada), Southern Cultures, ''The Poetry Review'' (UK), ''Poetry International''.

Riley's poetry has been anthologized in ''The Mind Has Cliffs of Fall: Poems at the Extremes of Feeling, ed. Robert Pinsky '' (W.W. Norton), ''The Open Door: One Hundred Poems, One Hundred Years of Poetry Magazine'', ''Poems of the American South'' (Everyman's Library-Knopf),''The Oxford Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry'' (Oxford University Press), ''The McSweeney's Book of Poets Picking Poets'' (McSweeney's), ''Poems From Far and Wide'' (McSweeney's), ''Vinegar and Char'' (University of Georgia Press), ''Gracious'' (Texas Tech University Press), ''Home: 100 Poems'' (Yale University Press).

Brought up in the South Carolina lowcountry, Atsuro Riley lives in San Francisco. Provided by Wikipedia