Atsuro Riley

Atsuro Riley is a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow and a winner of the Arts and Letters Awards in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is the author of Heard-Hoard (University of Chicago Press, 2021), winner of the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America, a finalist for the PEN America Voelcker Award for Poetry, a Boston Globe Best Book of 2021, and a Bookworm Top 10 Book of the Year. His 2010 book Romey’s Order (University of Chicago Press) won a Whiting Award, a Kate Tufts Discovery Award, The Believer Poetry Award, and a Witter Bynner Award from the Library of Congress. Riley’s work has been honored with a Lannan Foundation Literary Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize, and a Wood Prize from Poetry magazine. Brought up in the South Carolina lowcountry, Atsuro Riley lives in San Francisco.