David Biespiel is a poet, literary critic, columnist, and contributing writer at the American Poetry Review, the New Republic, the New York Times , Slate, Poetry, Politico, and The Rumpus, among other publications. He is the author of ten books, most recently The Education of a Young Poet, named by Poets & Writers as a Best Book for Writers; A Long High Whistle, which received the 2016 Oregon Book Award for General Nonfiction; and The Book of Men and Women, which was chosen one of the Best Books of the Year by the Poetry Foundation and received the 2011 Oregon Book Award for Poetry. He was a 2018 National Book Critics Circle Finalist for the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing. Recipient of Lannan, National Endowment for the Arts, and Stegner fellowships, he has taught at Stanford University, University of Maryland, George Washington University, and Wake Forest University, in addition to other colleges and universities. He is Poet in Residence at Oregon State University and president of the Attic Institute of Arts and Letters.
