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Listed as:

Poet

Public address:

Lambertville, NJ

New Jersey US

Email:

dmpiccinnini@gmail.com

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.

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

In which languages are you fluent?:

English

Born in:

New York, NY

New York

Raised in:

Marlboro , NJ

New Jersey

Website:

https://www.douglaspiccinnini.com [2]

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

Prefers to work with:

Any