David Roderick (born 1970) is an American poet from Plymouth, Massachusetts, who taught for nine years at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Previously, he had lectured at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, as the Kenan Visiting Writer at the University of San Francisco, and at Stanford University, where he also conducted classes for its Education Program for Gifted Youth summer program.
In 2016, with Rachel Richardson, he founded Left Margin LIT, a creative writing center in Berkeley, California, that offers readings by and classes for poets and writers of creative prose, both fiction and nonfiction.[1]
His work has appeared in 32 Poems, Boulevard, Gulf Coast, Triquarterly, Ontario Review, Poetry Northwest, River Styx, Verse, The Antioch Review, The Hudson Review, The Missouri Review, The Massachusetts Review, and The Virginia Quarterly Review.
Education edit
- B.A. – Colby College
- MFA, MFA Program for Poets & Writers – The University of Massachusetts Amherst.
- Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry, Stanford University.
Awards edit
- 2021-2022 NEA Creative Writing Fellowship
- 2007-2008 Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship
- 2006 American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize[2]
- 2003 Robert and Charlotte Baron Fellowship of the American Antiquarian Society
- Scholarship – Bread Loaf Writers' Conference
Personal life edit
Roderick lives in Berkeley, California, with the poet Rachel Richardson and their two children.[3]
Books edit
- Blue Colonial (Copper Canyon Press, 2006)
- The Americans (The University of Pittsburgh Press [2014])
References edit
- ^ "About Left Margin LIT". www.leftmarginlit.org. Retrieved 2020-02-20.
- ^ [1] Archived 2007-02-02 at the Wayback MachineAmerican Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize official Web page, accessed January 26, 2007
- ^ "About Rachel Richardson". www.rachelbrichardson.com. Retrieved 2020-02-20.