Steve Minnich

Poet

Richmond, VA
Virginia US
Email: 
srminnwrites@gmail.com
Website: 
linktr.ee/srminnwrites

Author's Bio

Steve Minnich is a bug that lives in Richmond, VA where he teaches, tends bar, and makes space for reading and writing. Sometimes he makes books and stuff. Sometimes he volunteers for Only Poems. Sometimes he co-edits a print zine journal called Carry Water. He is not hard to find. Say hello. Call him Steve.

Education: 
George Mason University MFA

Publications & Prizes

Prizes won: 
  • La Piccioletta Barca Prize 2024, 2nd Runner Up
  • Academy of American Poets College Prize, 2011

Personal Favorites

Favorite authors: 
An unfair question. If a favorite author is one whose work is returned to again and again, then a shorter version of a very long list would go something like : Hanif Abdurraqib Kaveh Akbar William Blake Mikhail Bulgakov Italo Calvino Julie Carr Anne Carson Anne De Marcken Emily Dickinson Joan Didion HD Russell Edson Kahlil Gibran Johannes Goransson Emmanuel Hocquard Maggie Nelson Tommy Orange Rainer Maria Rilke Arthur Rimbaud Zachary Schomburg Danez Smith Maggie Smith Gertrude Stein Mathias Svalina James Tate
What I'm reading now: 
A Season by Michael Joseph Walsh, Undersleep by Julie Doxsee, The Color Purple by Alice Walker, It Lasts Forever Then Its Over by Anne De Marcken, Tender Buttons by Gertrude Stein

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
American
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Levittown, PA
Pennsylvania
Raised in: 
Churchville, PA
Pennsylvania
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Last update: Apr 10, 2026