Dr. Dean Rader
California, United States
Member Since: 08/28/2018
Dean Rader has authored or co-authored twelve books. His debut collection of poems, Works & Days, won the 2010 T. S. Eliot Poetry Prize. His 2014 collection Landscape Portrait Figure Form was named by The Barnes & Noble Review as a Best Poetry Book. Other titles include his poetry collection Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry and the anthologies Native Voices: Contemporary Indigenous Poetry, Craft, and Conversations and Bullets into Bells: Poets and Citizens Respond to Gun Violence. Rader writes and reviews regularly for The San Francisco Chronicle, The Huffington Post, BOMB, and The Los Angeles Review of Books, where he co-authors a poetry review column with Victoria Chang. In 2020, he was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Balakian Award. His new book, Before the Borderless: Dialogues with the Art of Cy Twombly, features Rader’s poems alongside corresponding images by the artist Cy Twombly. Rader’s writing has been supported by fellowships from Princeton University, Harvard University, the MacDowell Foundation, Art Omi, The Headlands Center for the Arts, and the John R. Solomon Guggenheim Foundation, where he was a 2019 Fellow in Poetry. He is a professor at the University of San Francisco.
Website: http://deanrader.com
Twitter Username: @deanrader
Publications
- Works & Days (Winner 2010 T. S. Eliot Prize) , Truman State University Press (2010)
- Landscape/Portrait/Figure/Form , Omnidawn (2014)
- Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry , Copper Canyon (February 1, 2017)
- 99 Poems for the 99 Percent: An Anthology of Poetry , 99: The Press (July 2014)
Awards
- T. S. Eliot Prize(2010)
- Writer's League of Texas Book Award for Poetry(2010)
- Best Poetry Books of 2013(2013)
- Poetry Society of America's George Bogin Award(2015)
Employment
- Professor and Chair, Department of English at University of San Francisco (August 2001 - )
Degrees
- Doctoral Degree in Comparative Literature-Poetry-Translation from State University of New York at Binghamton (December 1995)
Genres of Interest
Creative nonfiction, Poetry