Srikanth Reddy (born 1973) is an American scholar and writer, including three full-length volumes of poetry.
Of Indian descent, his awards include a 2013 National Endowment for the Arts 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 Canadian 2019 Griffin Poetry Prize. [5]
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He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree and a Doctor of Philosophy degree from Harvard University, and a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
He is Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Chicago. [6] [7]
His poetry has been published in Jacket magazine, [8] Poetry Northwest , [9] Harper's Magazine , [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]
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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 Two Poets Reading: Jeet Thayil and Srikanth Reddy, University of Chicago. April 3, 2015. |