David Koehn

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.