David Roderick

David Roderick (born 1970) is an American poet from Plymouth, Massachusetts, who is an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Previously, he lectured at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, as the Kenan Visiting Writer at the University of San Francisco, and at Stanford University, where he also conducted classes for its Education Program for Gifted Youth summer program.

In 2016, with Rachel Richardson, he founded Left Margin LIT, a creative writing center in Berkeley, California, that offers readings by and classes for poets and writers of creative prose, both fiction and nonfiction.[1]

His work has appeared in 32 Poems, Boulevard, Gulf Coast, Triquarterly, Ontario Review, Poetry Northwest, River Styx, Verse, The Antioch Review, The Hudson Review, The Missouri Review, The Massachusetts Review, and The Virginia Quarterly Review.

Education

• B.A. – Colby College
• MFA, MFA Program for Poets & Writers – The University of Massachusetts Amherst.
• Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry, Stanford University.

Awards

• 2007-2008 Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship
• 2006 American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize[2]
• 2003 Robert and Charlotte Baron Fellowship of the American Antiquarian Society
• Scholarship – Bread Loaf Writers' Conference

Personal life

Roderick lives in Berkeley, California, with the poet Rachel Richardson and their two children.[3]

Books

• Blue Colonial (Copper Canyon Press, 2006)
• The Americans (The University of Pittsburgh Press [2014])

References

1. "About Left Margin LIT". www.leftmarginlit.org. Retrieved 2020-02-20.
2. Archived 2007-02-02 at the Wayback MachineAmerican Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize official Web page, accessed January 26, 2007
3. "About Rachel Richardson". www.rachelbrichardson.com. Retrieved 2020-02-20.

External links

• David Roderick in AGNI