Srikanth Reddy
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Srikanth Reddy | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1973 (age 51–52) |
| Occupation | Scholar |
Srikanth Reddy (born 1973) is an American scholar, poet and writer. He received National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, a Creative Capital Award In 2013, and Guggenheim fellowship in 2018[1][2][3]
Reddy delivered the Bagley Wright Lectures in Poetry in fall 2015, and served as a judge for the 2019 Griffin Poetry Prize.[4][5]
Reddy was born in the United States to Telugu physician parents from southern India.[6] He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree and a Doctor of Philosophy degree from Harvard University, and a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
Career
He is Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Chicago.[7][8]
His poetry has been published in Jacket magazine,[9] Poetry Northwest,[10] Harper's Magazine,[11] and The Guardian,[12] and his literary criticism has appeared in The New York Times, Lana Turner, Raritan, PEN America, and other publications.[13]
In October 2021, Reddy was announced as the editor of Phoenix Poets, a book series published by the University of Chicago Press,[14] and in December 2022, he assumed the role of poetry editor for The Paris Review.[15]
