David Roderick (born 1970) is an American poet from

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, who taught for nine years at the

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. Previously, he had lectured at the

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, as the Kenan Visiting Writer at the

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, and at

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, where he also conducted classes for its

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summer program. In 2016, with Rachel Richardson, he founded Left Margin LIT, a creative writing center in

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, that offers readings by and classes for poets and writers of creative prose, both fiction and nonfiction. His work has appeared in ''

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'', ''Boulevard'', ''Gulf Coast'', ''Triquarterly'', ''Ontario Review'', ''Poetry Northwest'', ''River Styx'', ''Verse'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''The Missouri Review'', ''The Massachusetts Review'', and ''

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''.

Education

* B.A. – Colby College * MFA,

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– The

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. *

Wallace Stegner Wallace Earle Stegner (February 18, 1909 – April 13, 1993) was an American novelist, writer, environmentalist, and historian. He was often called "The Dean of Western Writers". He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1972 and the U.S. National Book Award ...

Fellow in Poetry,

Awards

*2021-2022 NEA Creative Writing Fellowship *201
Julie Suk Award
for ''The Americans''. *2007-2008

Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship The Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship is given annually to a U.S.-born poet to spend one year outside North America in a country the recipient feels will most advance his or her work. When poet Amy Lowell died in 1925, her will established ...

*2006 ''American Poetry Review''/Honickman First Book Prize *2003 Robert and Charlotte Baron Fellowship of the

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*2002-200
Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Poetry
* Scholarship –

Bread Loaf Writers' Conference The Middlebury Bread Loaf Writers' Conference is an author's conference held every summer at the Bread Loaf Inn, near Bread Loaf Mountain, east of Middlebury, Vermont. Founded in 1926, it has been called by ''The New Yorker'' "the oldest and most ...

Personal life

Roderick lives in Berkeley, California, with the poet Rachel Richardson and their two children. He direct
Left Margin LIT
a creative writing center serving writers in the Bay Area.

Books

* ''Blue Colonial'' (

Copper Canyon Press Copper Canyon Press is an independent, non-profit small press, founded in 1972 by Sam Hamill, Tree Swenson, Bill O'Daly, and Jim Gautney, specializing exclusively in the publication of poetry. It is located in Port Townsend, Washington. Copper C ...

2006 2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification. Events January * January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute. * January 12 – A stampede during t ...

) * ''The Americans'' (The University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014)

References

External links

David Roderick in AGNI
{{DEFAULTSORT:Roderick, David 1970 births Living people American male poets Colby College alumni University of Massachusetts Amherst MFA Program for Poets & Writers alumni University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill faculty University of San Francisco faculty University of North Carolina at Greensboro faculty Stegner Fellows 21st-century American poets 21st-century American male writers