Douglas Piccinnini

DOUGLAS PICCINNINI 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. He is the author of Story Book: a novella (The Cultural Society, 2015) and a collection of poems, Blood Oboe (Omnidawn, 2015). His poems and/or writing have appeared or will appear in The Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, Aufgabe, Denver Quarterly, Diner Journal, Jacket, Lana Turner, NYTimes.com, The Poetry Project Newsletter, Prelude, Seattle Review, Tupelo Quarterly, The Volta’s Evening Will Come, Verse, West Wind Review and elsewhere. His poetry has been anthologized in The Sonnets: Translating and Rewriting Shakespeare (Nightboat Books, 2012).