Noah Warren

Born in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, poet Noah Warren was raised in Charlestown, Rhode Island. He earned a BA at Yale University, where he was awarded the Frederick Mortimer Clapp Fellowship. He is the author of The Complete Stories (Copper Canyon Press, 2021) and The Destroyer in the Glass (Yale University Press, 2016).

Carl Phillips selected The Destroyer in the Glass for the Yale Series of Younger Poets. Praising the collection’s “wedding of intellect, heart, sly humor, and formal dexterity, all in the service of negotiating those moments when an impulse toward communion with others competes with an instinct for a more isolated self” in his judge’s citation, Phillips observes, “The poems both examine and embody the nexus of joy and sorrow, of certainty and confusion, without which there’d be none of the restlessness that makes us uniquely human.”

Warren is a PhD candidate in English at UC Berkeley, where he coordinates the Lunch Poems reading series.