Srikanth Reddy

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Srikanth Reddy (born 1973) is an Indian American writer, scholar, and author of three full-length volumes of poetry. His awards include a 2013 NEA fellowship, [1] a 2013 Creative Capital Award, [2] and a 2018 Guggenheim fellowship. [3] Reddy delivered the Bagley Wright Lectures in Poetry in fall 2015, [4] and served as a judge for the 2019 Griffin Poetry Prize. [5]

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Life

He earned his BA and his PhD from Harvard, and his MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He is currently Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Chicago. [6] [7]

His poetry has been published in Jacket, [8] Poetry Northwest, [9] Harper's, [10] and The Guardian, [11] and his literary criticism has appeared in the New York Times, Lana Turner, Raritan, PEN America, and other publications. [12]

In October 2021 Reddy was announced as the editor of Phoenix Poets, a book series published by the University of Chicago Press, [13] and in December 2022 he assumed the role of poetry editor for The Paris Review . [14]

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  14. "A Letter from the Review's New Poetry Editor". theparisreview.org. Retrieved 13 December 2022.
  15. "Bookslut | Facts for Visitors by Srikanth Reddy". www.bookslut.com. Retrieved 2015-09-17.
  16. Girard, Melissa (Autumn 2005). "Reviewed Work: Facts for Visitors by Srikanth Reddy". Chicago Review. JSTOR   40784036.
  17. "Donna Seaman reviews 'Voyager' by Srikanth Reddy". www.wbez.org. Retrieved 2015-09-17. Voyager is a nuanced and haunting book of geopolitical, literary, moral, and spiritual inquiry. Guided by the poet, we envision the infinite mystery of space and the astonishing ingenuity and longevity of the Voyager mission. Srikanth Reddy also takes us on a voyage through the great unknown that resides within each of us––as we each carry our own etched records of memories, wounds, illusions, and hope on our journeys right here on spaceship Earth
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Nuvola apps kaboodle.svg Two Poets Reading: Jeet Thayil and Srikanth Reddy, University of Chicago Apr 3, 2015