Timothy Geiger

Poet

Author's Bio

Timothy Geiger is the author of the poetry collection Weatherbox, winner of the 2019 Vern Rutsala Poetry Prize from Cloudbank Books. He has also published the full-length collections, The Curse of Pheromones (Main Street Rag, 2008) and Blue Light Factory (Spoon River Poetry Press, 1997) and ten chapbooks, most recently, Holler (APoGee Press, 2021). His work has been the recipient of a Pushcart Prize XVII, a Holt, Rinehart and Winston Award in Literature, and many state and local grants in Alabama, Minnesota, and Ohio. He is also the proprietor of the literary fine-press Aureole Press at the University of Toledo, where he teaches creative writing, poetry, and letterpress printing. He lives on a farm in Northwest Ohio with his wife, raising goats, pigs, chickens and ducks.

 

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:
Homage to Vallejo (Greenhouse Review Press, 2006)
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A Fine Excess (Sarabande Books, 2000)
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American Poetry: The Next Generation (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2000)
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Place of Passage (Story Line Press, 2000)
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Pushcart Prize Award XVII (Pushcart Press, 1993)
Books:
Weatherbox (Cloudbank Books, 2019)
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The Curse of Peromones (Main Street Rag, 2008)
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Blue Light Factory (Spoon River Poetry Press, 1999)
Chapbooks:
Holler (Apogee Press, 2021)
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Cathedral (Aureole Press, 2011)
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Four Windows (Brandenburg Press, 2006)
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Migratory Patterms (Brandenburg Press, 1998)
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Small Passages (Salmon Run Press, 1995)
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Another Atmosphere (Aureole Press, 1993)
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Catechism Days (Aureole Press, 1991)
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Proving the Light (Aureole Press, 1989)
Journals:
America
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Artful Dodge
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Birmingham Poetry Review
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Connecticut Review
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Heliotrope
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Plainsongs
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Sou'wester
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Prizes won: 

Pushcart Prize XVII, Holt, Rinehart and Winston Award in Literature

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
White
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Anchorage, AK
Alaska
Raised in: 
Reading, PA
Pennsylvania
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Last update: Aug 13, 2023