Cynthia Arrieu-King is an American poet with Chinese heritage.

Cynthia Arrieu-King
Alma mater
Employer
Awards
  • Kundiman Fellowship

Early life edit

Cynthia Arrieu-King was raised in Louisville, Kentucky.[1]

Career edit

Cynthia Arrieu-King is the author of three collections of poetry, People are Tiny in Paintings of China (2010); Manifest (2013);[2] and Futureless Languages (2018).[3] She also co-wrote a chapbook with Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis By a Year Lousy with Meteors (2012) and a book-length collaborative volume of poetry with the late Hillary Gravendyk, Unlikely Conditions (2016).

Arrieu-King edited the anthology-length Asian Anglophone issue of dusie. [4]

Cynthia Arrieu-King works as an associate professor of creative writing at Stockton University.[5]

Awards and honors edit

Manifest won the 2013 Gatewood Prize selected by Harryette Mullen.[6]

Works edit

Poetry

  • 2006 The Small Anything City (Dream Horse Press) (chapbook) ISBN not available
  • 2010 People are Tiny in Paintings of China (Octopus Books) ISBN 978-0980193855
  • 2013 Manifest (Switchback Books) ISBN 978-0978617288
  • 2018 Futureless Languages (Radiator Press) ISBN 978-1732814509
  • 2021 Continuity (Octopus Books) ISBN 978-1733455114

Collaborations

  • 2016 By Some Miracle a Year Lousy with Meteors with Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis (Dream Horse Press) ISBN 978-1935716235
  • 2017 Unlikely Conditions with Hillary Gravendyk (1913 Press) ISBN 978-0990633242

Poems

  • "Everybody Believes They are the Good Guy," in Poetry Magazine
  • "Something Beyond Interpretation, Lobster, and empire," in Bomb Magazine
  • "Saga," American Poetry Review

Creative non-fiction

  • The Betweens (Noemi Press) ISBN 978-1934819951

Short fiction

  • "Boxes," in The Collagist
  • "Franny," in Joyland Magazine
  • "Roads Impassable," in StorySouth

References edit

  1. ^ "Cynthia Arrieu-King". Poetry Foundation. 2019-08-03. Retrieved 2019-08-04.
  2. ^ "Cynthia Arrieu-King's "Manifest," winner of the Gateway Prize by Switchback Books, (selected by Harryette Mullen), will be out in February!". Kundiman. 21 February 2013. Retrieved 2019-08-04.
  3. ^ Press, Radiator. "Futureless Languages by Cynthia Arrieu-King". Radiator Press. Retrieved 2019-08-04.
  4. ^ "Cynthia Arrieu-King, Ph.D." SomoS. 2019-06-28. Retrieved 2019-08-05.
  5. ^ "Faculty and Staff - School of Arts & Humanities | Stockton University". www.stockton.edu. Retrieved 2019-08-04.
  6. ^ "Cynthia Arrieu-King | Books | Switchback Books". switchbackbooks. Retrieved 2019-08-05.

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