Jared Stanley

Jared Stanley is the author of three collections of poetry: EARS (Nightboat, 2017), The Weeds (Salt, 2012), and Book Made of Forest (Salt, 2009). He has also authored numerous artists books, chapbooks, and ephemera, including Ignore the Cries of Empty Stones and Your Flesh Will Break Out in Scavengers (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, 2018) and Shall (Black Rock Press, 2019). His poems and prose have been published in the New York Times, Poem-a-Day, Triple Canopy, Harvard Review, and Make Magazine, among others. In 2018, Stanley was awarded the Silver Pen Award from the Nevada Writers’ Hall of Fame.

Stanley frequently collaborates with visual artists, most recently on a speculative artist’s museum Terma, Images from the Ear or Groin or Somewhere, with the Toronto-based artist Sameer Farooq, which was the inaugural exhibition at the Lilley Museum of Art in Reno in January 2019. He teaches in the MFA Program at the University of Nevada, Reno.