Rick Barot

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Rick Barot
Born (1969-02-19) February 19, 1969 (age 54)
Philippines
OccupationPoet, writer, educator
Education Wesleyan University
Iowa Writers' Workshop
Website
rickbarot.com

Rick Barot (born February 19, 1969) is an American poet and educator. [1]

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Life

Barot was born in the Philippines, grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, and attended Wesleyan University and the Iowa Writers Workshop. [2]

He has published three books of poetry with Sarabande Books: The Darker Fall (2002), which received the Kathryn A. Morton Prize; Want (2008), which was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and won the 2009 Grub Street Book Prize; and Chord (2015), which was a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize and received the 2016 UNT Rilke Prize, the PEN Open Book Award, and the Publishing Triangle's Thom Gunn Award. [2] He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Artist Trust of Washington, the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, and Stanford University, where he was a Stegner Fellow and a Jones Lecturer in Poetry. [3] [4] [5] [6]

Barot is the poetry editor of New England Review . He lives in Tacoma, Washington, and teaches at Pacific Lutheran University. [2] He is also the director of the Rainier Writing Workshop, the low-residency MFA in creative writing at Pacific Lutheran University. He previously taught at the low-residency MFA at Warren Wilson College. [2] His fourth book of poems, The Galleons, was published by Milkweed Editions in 2020. [7]

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