Dylan Krieger

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Dylan Krieger
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Dylan Krieger at a diner in Albany, New York.
Born(1990-03-06)March 6, 1990
South Bend, Indiana, U.S.
Occupation Poet, Editor
NationalityAmerican
Notable worksGiving Godhead (2017)
dreamland trash (2018)
No Ledge Left to Love (2018)
The Mother Wart (2019)
Metamortuary (2020)
Soft-Focus Slaughterhouse (2021)
Predators Welcome (2024)

Dylan Krieger (born 6 March 1990) is an American poet and writer who has authored the books Giving Godhead, dreamland trash, No Ledge Left to Love, The Mother Wart, Metamortuary, Soft-Focus Slaughterhouse, and Predators Welcome. Her work has also appeared in numerous journals, including Nine Mile, [1] [2] Entropy, [3] New Delta Review , [4] (b)oink, [5] Fine Print, [6] [7] Seneca Review, [8] Jacket2, [9] Five: 2: One, [10] and others.

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Early life

Born in South Bend, Indiana, Krieger is the granddaughter of American historian Leonard Krieger, and the great-niece of Murray Krieger, an American literary critic and theorist. She was home-schooled by her mother for religious reasons and gave her first reading at age 16 after winning a contest. [11] She attended the University of Notre Dame, where she earned a B.A. in English and philosophy in 2012 before moving to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to earn her M.F.A. in creative writing at Louisiana State University. There, she studied under Lara Glenum and Laura Mullen [12] and won the Robert Penn Warren MFA Thesis Award in 2015. [13] That same year, she directed the Delta Mouth Literary Festival in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. [14]

Publications and appearances

In 2017, Delete Press published Krieger's first collection of poetry, Giving Godhead, which was dubbed the best collection of poetry to appear in English that year by The New York Times , [15] as well as making their list of 100 notable books of the year. [16] Also in 2017, she was a Susan K. Collins/Mississippi Valley Poetry Chapbook Contest finalist, [17] was nominated for a Pushcart Prize for her poem "Fake Barns" by the Midwest Review, [18] and her book No Ledge Left to Love won the annual book contest of the Henry Miller Memorial Library and was published by their imprint Ping Pong Free Press the following year. [19] In 2018, she appeared on the podcast No Good Poetry, [20] and was honored at the Louisiana Book Festival where she gave a reading at the state capitol. [21] In 2019, she appeared on the panel "Apocalypse Lovers: Co-Conceiving Our Own Demise" at the New Orleans Poetry Festival, [22] appeared on a panel presented by Louisiana Poet Laureate John Warner Smith at the Louisiana Book Festival, [23] became the managing editor of the independent literary and visual arts journal Fine Print, [24] and a full-length study of her first four books entitled Obscenity and Disruption in the Poetry of Dylan Krieger was published by Peter Lang. [25] In 2020, she released a phonograph record of her reading six new poems entitled Turn into the Water via Fine Print Press. [26]

Poetry collections

Recordings

References

  1. ↑ "Dylan Krieger". Nine Mile Magazine. 4 (2): 164–169. Spring 2017.
  2. ↑ "Dylan Krieger". Nine Mile Magazine. 5 (2): 90–110. Spring 2018.
  3. ↑ Contributor, Guest. "Chimeric Foreignization and Parasitic Masculinity in Aase Berg's Hackers" . Retrieved May 31, 2019.{{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  4. ↑ Krieger, Dylan (2019). "Bridging Divides & Transgressing Boundaries in Morani Kornberg-Weiss's Dear Darwish". New Delta Review. Retrieved 4 April 2019.
  5. ↑ "spring broke half a nation-state away • (b)OINK". Apr 7, 2017. Retrieved May 31, 2019.
  6. ↑ Krieger, Dylan (October 2015). "Un-Cudgel". Fine Print. 2: 2.
  7. ↑ Krieger, Dylan (July 2017). "Gateway Dick". Fine Print. 7: 6.
  8. ↑ "HWS: Seneca Review" . Retrieved 5 April 2019.
  9. ↑ Krieger, Dylan (11 September 2014). "Morettian 'abstract models' for poetry analysis". Jacket2. Retrieved 5 April 2019.
  10. ↑ Magazine, Five 2 One (14 March 2018). "Dylan Krieger Archives" . Retrieved May 31, 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  11. ↑ Jacobs, David (22 February 2018). "Positive shock: Dylan Krieger is the south Louisiana poet turning everyone's heads". The Advocate.
  12. ↑ Hagood, Caroline (23 May 2019). "The Sheer Will to Disrupt: A Conversation With Dylan Krieger". Kenyon Review.
  13. ↑ "LSU MFA Awards" . Retrieved 5 April 2019.
  14. ↑ "History". Jul 28, 2011. Retrieved May 31, 2019.
  15. ↑ Simmons, Thomas (3 August 2017). "A Poetry Collection Born of Fury, Sex and Trauma". The New York Times.
  16. ↑ Staff (22 November 2017). "100 Notable Books of 2017". The New York Times.
  17. ↑ Collins, Ryan (4 August 2017). "Announcing the Winner of the 2016 Susan K. Collins/ Mississippi Valley Poetry Chapbook Contest" . Retrieved 5 April 2019.
  18. ↑ "2017 Pushcart Prize Nominations". Midwest Review. 20 April 2018. Retrieved 5 April 2019.
  19. ↑ "Ping Pong Free Press and the HMML Announce the Winner of our Annual Poetry Contest: Dylan Krieger!". Henry Miller Memorial Library. 10 August 2017. Retrieved 5 April 2019.
  20. ↑ "Episode 51: Whale Prom". No Good Poetry. Retrieved 5 April 2019.
  21. ↑ "Dylan Krieger". Louisiana Book Festival. Retrieved 5 April 2019.
  22. ↑ "Apocalypse Lovers: Co-Conceiving Our Own Demise" . Retrieved 5 April 2019.
  23. ↑ "Dylan Krieger". Louisiana Book Festival. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
  24. ↑ "Dylan Krieger". Managing Editor. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
  25. ↑ "Obscenity and Disruption in the Poetry of Dylan Krieger" . Retrieved 18 June 2019.
  26. ↑ "Turn into the Water". Discogs . Retrieved 25 April 2020.
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