![]() While Crush offers a highly emotional exploration of various facets of being gay, desire, and queer life, Siken’s second collection, War of the Foxes (2015), is a more cerebral investigation of artistic creation and representation, largely inspired by paintings. He is a recipient of a Pushcart Prize, and grants from Arizona Commission on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. ![]() Siken’s work has been published in several journals and anthologies. It also won the Lambda Literary Award and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Crush, Siken’s first book of poetry, won the 2004 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize and was published by Yale University Press in 2005. He has also worked as a social worker (though Siken refutes this). In addition to being an accomplished poet, Siken is a painter, filmmaker, and a co-founding editor at Spork Press. ![]() in psychology and Master of Fine Arts from the University of Arizona. ![]() Richard Siken was born in New York City in 1967 and lives in Tucson, Arizona. ![]()
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