Richard Siken

Who is Richard Siken?

Richard Siken is an American poet, author of the collection Crush, which won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition in 2004. He is the editor of spork literary magazine. Siken received a Literature Fellowship in Poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts, and his book Crush was awarded the Lambda Literary Award for "Gay Men's Poetry" in 2005, and the Thom Gunn Award from Publishing Triangle. The 1991 death of his boyfriend influenced his writing of the book.

Siken currently lives in Tucson, Arizona and is a full-time social worker.