Andrew Feld

Poet and editor Andrew Feld earned an MFA at the University of Houston. In his formal and free verse poems, he often engages themes of power, intimacy, and natural order. “Feld is an exacting poet whose poems are capable of holding at once the most intense, objective sensory detail and the most elusive and ethically ambivalent mental exercise,” notes Lisa Russ Spaar in a 2013 review of Raptor for the Los Angeles Review of Books. Spaar continues, “The pitch of formal verge and the float of personal and political trespass in Feld’s inaugural text finds renewed ardor in his second, a passionately pent meditation on wild(er)ness and restraint.” In a 2014 interview with Anna Knowles for the blog Poem of the Week, Feld states, “To be a contemporary citizen in our republic is to feel a constant sense of hopelessness and impotent rage at the vile Capitalists who are destroying our planet for short-term profit. Poetry reminds you that the world does not have to be the way it is, that community is possible and necessary.” 

Feld is the author of the poetry collections Citizen (2004), which was chosen for the National Poetry Series, and Raptor (2012). His work was anthologized in The Best American Poetry 2005.

The recipient of a Wallace Stegner Fellowship, a “Discovery”/The Nation Award, and two Pushcart Prizes, Feld has served as editor in chief and poetry editor for the Seattle Review at the University of Washington, where he is an associate professor and director of the creative writing program. He lives in Seattle.