Rick Barot

Rick Barot was born in the Philippines and grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. He attended Wesleyan University, the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and Stanford University, where he was a Stegner Fellow in Poetry and later a Jones Lecturer in Poetry.
 
Barot is author of the poetry collections The Darker Fall (2002), which received the Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry, Want (2008), a finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards and won the 2009 Grub Street Book Prize, Chord (2015), and The Galleons (2020). His poems and essays have appeared in the New Republic, Poetry magazine, the Kenyon Review, the Virginia Quarterly Review, and others.
 
The recipient of fellowships from the NEA and the Guggenheim Foundation, Barot won the Shelley Memorial Award in 2020. He has taught at numerous universities including Stanford, California College of the Arts, George Washington University, and Lynchburg College. He lives in Tacoma, Washington, and where directs the Rainier Writing Workshop, the low-residency MFA program in creative writing at Pacific Lutheran University. He is also the poetry editor for New England Review.