Nicholas Friedman

Nicholas Friedman is the author of Petty Theft, winner of the New Criterion Poetry Prize. In a comment on this “brilliant, beautifully crafted first book,” poet B.H. Fairchild notes: “As the political life of the nation descends further into lies and doublespeak, there is a poet ... who remembers the art of poetry, practices it superbly, and so, like Keats, is able to offer us the music of Truth ‘proved upon our pulses.’”

A former Wallace Stegner Fellow and Jones Lecturer at Stanford University, Friedman is also the recipient of a Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. He lives with his wife and son in Syracuse.