Richie Hofmann

Richie Hofmann is a graduate of the University Professors Program at Boston University and earned an MFA from the Johns Hopkins University and PhD from Emory University, where he also held the Creative Writing Fellowship in Poetry. He is the author of the poetry collections A Hundred Lovers (2022) and Second Empire (2015), which won the Beatrice Hawley Award. Known for its lush language and architectures, and exploration of artifice and queer desire, his poetry has been compared to Hart Crane’s. His work has been published widely in magazines such as the New Yorker, Kenyon Review, and Poetry magazine, and anthologized in Resistance, Rebellion, Life: 50 Poems Now (2017).

His honors and awards include the Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship, an Academy of American Poets Prize, and the AWP Intro Journal Award for Poetry. He is the recipient of the John Ciardi Scholarship from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Peter Taylor Fellowship from the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, the Tennessee Williams Scholarship from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Michael Peich Scholarship from the West Chester Poetry Conference, and a scholarship from the New York State Summer Writers Institute. Currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow, Hofmann is co-founder, with Kara van de Graaf, of Lighbox, an online poetry educational resource. He is a Jones Lecturer in poetry at Stanford University.