Brian Blanchfield

Brian Blanchfield
Visiting Associate Professor, Poetry, Spring 2017

Brian Blanchfield is the author of three books of poetry and prose, most recently Proxies: Essays Near Knowing, for which he received a 2016 Whiting Award in Nonfiction, and A Several World, winner of the 2014 Academy of American Poets James Laughlin Award. His work has appeared in Harper'sThe NationBOMBBrickThe Paris Review, and Lana Turner, among other magazines. A recipient of a 2015 Howard Foundation Grant in Poetry, he lives in Tucson, where he hosts Speedway and Swan, a poetry-and-music radio show, in collaboration with the University of Arizona Poetry Center and KXCI Community Radio.