Bio


Richie Hofmann's new book of poems, A HUNDRED LOVERS, was published by Alfred A. Knopf in 2022. He is the author of SECOND EMPIRE (Alice James Books, 2015), winner of the Beatrice Hawley Award, and a recipient of the Pushcart Prize and the Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, among other honors. His poems appear recently in The New Yorker, Poetry, The Yale Review, and the New York Review of Books. A 2017-19 Wallace Stegner Fellow, he is currently Jones Lecturer in Poetry.

Academic Appointments


  • Lecturer, Creative Writing

Honors & Awards


  • Wallace Stegner Fellowship, Stanford University (2017-19)
  • Ruth Lilly Fellowship, Poetry Foundation (2012)

Professional Education


  • Ph.D., Emory University, English (2018)
  • M.F.A., Johns Hopkins University, Poetry (2014)

Current Research and Scholarly Interests


poetry, creative writing, ekphrasis, the classical tradition, sexuality

2022-23 Courses


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