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David Koehn [1]

Listed as: 
Poet, Creative Nonfiction Writer
Public address: 
DISCOVERY BAY, CA
California US
Email: 
david.a.koehn@gmail.com
Bio: 

David Koehn won the May Sarton Poetry Prize with his first full-length manuscript, “Twine (Bauhan Publishing, 2013). He released a collection analyzing Donald Justice’s approach to prosody titled Compendium (Omnidawn Publishing, 2017). Omnidawn Publishing also brought out his second full-length collection, Scatterplot, in 2020. Koehn has a forthcoming chapbook, “intervals of,” from a collaboration with Rebecca Resinski, which Blue Bag Press is set to publish. Koehn’s writing has appeared in several chapbooks and across a wide range of literary magazines including distinguished publications such as Kenyon Review, New England Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Rhino, Volt, Carolina Quarterly, Diagram, McSweeney’s, The Greensboro Review, North American Review, The Rumpus, Smartish Pace, Hotel Amerika, Gargoyle, Zyzzyva, and Prairie Schooner. He earned his BA in Creative Writing at Carnegie Mellon and an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Florida.

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Born in: 
Neenah, WI
Wisconsin
Raised in: 
Hazelton, PA
Pennsylvania
Website: 
https://davidkoehn.com [2]
Prizes won: 

May Sarton Poetry Prize 2013 | Hendrix-Murphy Foundation Programs in Literature and Language Grant 2006 | Midnight Sun Chapbook Contest 1998 |

Education: 
University of Florida
What I'm reading now: 
Of Annunciations by Ewa Chrusciel
Shadowboxing by Joseph Rios
[lukao] by Craig Santos Perez
The Soluble Hour by Hillary Gravendyk
[hacha] by Craig Santos Perez
Writers Retreats: 
Aspen Summer Words Writing Conference and Literary Festival
Community of Writers
Napa Valley Writers’ Conference
Summer Fishtrap Gathering of Writers
Prefers to work with: 
Any

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