Mario Chard

Poet

Atlanta, GA

Georgia US

Email:

mariochard@gmail.com

Website:

www.mariochard.com

Twitter/X:

@mariochard

Author's Bio

Mario Chard is the author of Land of Fire (Tupelo Press, 2018), winner of the Dorset Prize and the Georgia Author of the Year Award in Poetry. Recent poems have appeared in the The New Yorker, Poetry, Boston Review, and elsewhere. Winner of the “Discovery” Poetry Prize and a former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, he lives and teaches in Atlanta, Georgia.

Publications & Prizes

Book:

Land of Fire (Tupelo Press, 2018)

Journals:

Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day

Adroit Journal

Beloit Poetry Journal

Boston Review

Chattahoochee Review

Colorado Review

Crab Orchard Review

Field

Georgetown Review

Hayden's Ferry Review

Huizache

Image: A Journal of the Arts and Religion

New Yorker

Phi Kappa Phi Forum

Western Humanities Review

Prizes won:

Winner, Georgia Author of the Year Award in Poetry (2019); Winner, Dorset Prize from Tupelo Press (2016); Finalist, Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship (2013); Winner, "Discovery" / Boston Review Poetry Contest (2012); Honorable Mention, Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize (2012); First Place, The National Society of Arts and Letters Literature Competition, Bloomington Chapter (2011); First Place, Thomas H. Scholl and Elizabeth Boyd Thompson Poetry Prize, The Academy of American Poets (2011); First Place, 15th Annual Utah Writers' Contest, Western Humanities Review (2008)

More Information

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Prefers to work with:

Any

Fluent in:

English, Spanish

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Last update: Jun 12, 2020