Edgar Kunz
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Edgar Kunz | |
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 Kunz reading at The Peckham Pelican in London, UK, in 2023. | |
| Born | 1988 (age 37–38) |
| Occupation | Poet, Professor |
| Language | English |
| Notable works | Tap Out, Fixer |
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Edgar Kunz (born 1988) is an American poet.
He is the author of Fixer, published by Ecco in 2023, and Tap Out, published by Ecco in 2019.[1]
In 2026, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.[2]
Kunz was born in Framingham, Massachusetts. His father, who features in his writing, was a chimney sweep and handyman.[3] He attended Manchester Community College before earning his BA in English from Goucher College in 2010.[4] He earned his MFA in Creative Writing from Vanderbilt University in 2015 and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University from 2015-2017.[5]
Career
Kunz currently teaches in the English Department and Creative Writing MFA program at Virginia Commonwealth University and in the low-residency Newport MFA at Salve Regina University.[6][7] From 2018 to 2025, Kunz taught creative writing at his alma mater, Goucher College, where he was the Assistant Director of the Kratz Center for Creative Writing.[8]
He is a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, a MacDowell Fellow, and was awarded an Individual Artist Grant from the Maryland State Arts Council in 2022.[9][10][11] He has also received fellowships and awards from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and the Academy of American Poets.[12]
Individual poems and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Poetry, Oxford American, Literary Hub, American Poetry Review, and Yale Review.[13][14][15][16][17][18]