Douglas Piccinnini

Poet

Author's Bio

DOUGLAS PICCINNINI 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. He is the author of Story Book: a novella (The Cultural Society, 2015) and a collection of poems, Blood Oboe (Omnidawn, 2015). His poems and/or writing have appeared or will appear in The Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, Aufgabe, Denver Quarterly, Diner Journal, Jacket, Lana Turner, NYTimes.com, The Poetry Project Newsletter, Prelude, Seattle Review, Tupelo Quarterly, The Volta’s Evening Will Come, Verse, West Wind Review and elsewhere. His poetry has been anthologized in The Sonnets: Translating and Rewriting Shakespeare (Nightboat Books, 2012).

Publications & Prizes

Anthology:
The Sonnets: Translating and Rewriting Shakespeare (Nightboat Books, 2012)
Books:
BLOOD OBOE (Omnidawn, 2015)
,
Story Book (Cultural Society, 2015)
Chapbooks:
Victoria (Bloof Books, 2019)
,
Soft (Cultural Society, 2010)
Journals:
Abjective
,
Antioch Review
,
Aufgabe
,
Brooklyn Rail
,
Colorado Review
,
Columbia Review
,
Denver Quarterly
,
Diner
,
Fawlt Magazine
,
Fence
,
Lana Turner: A Journal of Poetry and Opinion
,
Lyre Lyre
,
mid)rib
,
Moonshot Magazine
,
Nat. Brut
,
Ping Pong
,
Prelude
,
So and So
,
Supermachine
,
Tammy
,
The Brooklyn Review
,
The Seattle Review
,
Tupelo Quarterly
,
Vanitas
,
Verse
,
Verse Daily
,
VLAK
,
West Wind Review
Prizes won: 

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

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
New York, NY
New York
Raised in: 
Marlboro , NJ
New Jersey
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Last update: Apr 27, 2020