David Biespiel is a contributor to The New Yorker, New Republic, Slate, and other magazines. He has received a Stegner Fellowship, NEA Fellowship, Lannan Fellowship, Oregon Book Award (twice) and been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Balakian award. In addition to the memoirs, he has published two collections of essays, six books of poems, and two anthologies, including an edition for Everyman’s Library. He is the Poet-in-Residence at Oregon State University and the founder of the Attic Institute of Arts and Letters in Portland.

David Biespiel is a contributor to The New Yorker, New Republic, Slate, and other magazines. He has received a Stegner Fellowship, NEA Fellowship, Lannan Fellowship, Oregon Book Award (twice) and been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Balakian award. In addition to the memoirs, he has published two collections of essays, six books of poems, and two anthologies, including an edition for Everyman’s Library. He is the Poet-in-Residence at Oregon State University and the founder of the Attic Institute of Arts and Letters in Portland.

David Biespiel is a contributor to The New Yorker, New Republic, Slate, and other magazines. He has received a Stegner Fellowship, NEA Fellowship, Lannan Fellowship, Oregon Book Award (twice) and been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Balakian award. In addition to the memoirs, he has published two collections of essays, six books of poems, and two anthologies, including an edition for Everyman’s Library. He is the Poet-in-Residence at Oregon State University and the founder of the Attic Institute of Arts and Letters in Portland.