Douglas Piccinnini

Poet

Lambertville, NJ
New Jersey US
Email: 
dmpiccinnini@gmail.com
Website: 
www.douglaspiccinnini.com

Author's Bio

Douglas Piccinnini (b. 1982) is a multidisciplinary writer and artist whose work has appeared in American Poetry Review, Amsterdam Review, The Brooklyn Rail, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Fence, Michigan Quarterly Review, Lana Turner, and Volt, among other publications.

He is the author of Beautiful, Safe & Free (New Books, 2023), Blood Oboe (Omnidawn, 2015), and Story Book: a novella (The Cultural Society, 2015), as well as numerous chapbooks, including Does This World Want Me To Have Problems: New & Selected Poems (CCCP/Subpress, 2024).

Piccinnini received a 2025 Finalist award from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts for Poetry.

He has been awarded residencies by The Vermont Studio Center, Art Farm in Marquette, NE, Sundress Academy for the Arts in Knoxville, TN and The Elizabeth Bishop Society of Nova Scotia. In 2014, he was selected by Dorothea Lasky as a winner of the Summer Literary Seminars for Poetry. Shadowplay was selected by Ben Lerner as a finalist for the 2014 Seattle Review Chapbook Contest. 

Publications & Prizes

Anthology:
The Sonnets: Translating and Rewriting Shakespeare (Nightboat Books, 2012)
Books:
BLOOD OBOE (Omnidawn, 2015)
,
Story Book (Cultural Society, 2015)
Chapbooks:
Does This World Want Me To Have Problems? (Subpress, 2024)
,
A Western Sky (Greying Ghost Press, 2022)
,
Victoria (Bloof Books, 2019)
,
Soft (Cultural Society, 2010)
Journals:
Abjective
,
American Poetry Review
,
Amsterdam Review
,
Antioch Review
,
Aufgabe
,
Brooklyn Rail
,
Colorado Review
,
Columbia Review
,
Denver Quarterly
,
Diner
,
Fawlt Magazine
,
Fence
,
Lana Turner: A Journal of Poetry and Opinion
,
Lyre Lyre
,
Map Literary
,
Michigan Quarterly Review
,
mid)rib
,
Moonshot Magazine
,
Nat. Brut
,
Ping Pong
,
Poetry Project Newsletter
,
Posit
,
Prelude
,
So and So
,
Supermachine
,
Tammy
,
The Brooklyn Review
,
The Indianapolis Review
,
The Seattle Review
,
Tupelo Quarterly
,
Vanitas
,
Verse
,
Verse Daily
,
VLAK
,
West Wind Review
Prizes won: 
  • Finalist & Grant Recipient,  New Jersey State Council on the Arts, 2025
  • Finalist & Grant Recipient, The Mastheads, Pittsfield, MA, 2020
  • Writer-in-Residence, Art Farm, Marquette, NE, September, 2017
  • Writer-in-Residence, Sundress Academy for the Arts, Knoxville, TN, February, 2017
  • The Home School, Miami, FL, 2016 (offered)
  • Best Poetry Collections of 2015, Blood Oboe, LitHub, 2015
  • Finalist: Summer Literary Seminars in Kenya, 2014
  • Finalist: “Shadowplay,” The Seattle Review Chapbook Contest, 2014
  • Semifinalist: 2012 Sawtooth Poetry Prize, Ahsahta Press, 2012
  • Signal Fire, Mt. Hood National Forest; Portland, OR (offered)
  • Semifinalist Summer Literary Seminars, 2009, 2010, 2011
  • Writer-in-Residence, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT, 2008
  • Writer-in-Residence, Elizabeth Bishop Society, Nova Scotia, August, 2009
  • Writer-in-Residence, Art Farm, Marquette, NE, October, 2008
  • Joel Oppenheimer Scholarship, New England College, 2007-2009

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More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
New York, NY
New York
Raised in: 
Marlboro , NJ
New Jersey
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Last update: Jul 06, 2025