Dan Beachy-Quick

Dan Beachy-Quick is the translator of The Thinking Root and Stone-Garland, both from ancient Greek. He is also the author of two works of creative nonfiction, Of Song and Silence and The Whaler's Dictionary, as well as nine collections of poems, one novel, and a monograph on the work of John Keats. His work has been a winner of the Colorado Book Award, a finalist for the William Carlos Williams Prize and the PEN/USA Literary Award in Poetry, longlisted for the National Book Award for Poetry, and included in the Best American Poetry anthology. The recipient of a Lannan Foundation residency, his work has been supported by the Woodberry Poetry Room at Harvard University and the Guggenheim Foundation. He is a University Distinguished Teaching Scholar at Colorado State University, where he serves in the English department and teaches in the MFA program in creative writing.