Richard Tillinghast

Richard Tillinghast's latest book, Blue If Only I Could Tell You , won the 2022 White Pine Press Poetry Prize. Night Train to Memphis is his 14th poetry collection, in addition to five books of creative nonfiction. His poems have appeared in the American Poetry Review , The Atlantic , The New Yorker , Paris Review , The New Republic , Best American Poetry and elsewhere. He is recipient of the Amy Lowell Traveling Poetry Scholarship as well as grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National...See more

Richard Tillinghast's latest book, Blue If Only I Could Tell You , won the 2022 White Pine Press Poetry Prize. Night Train to Memphis is his 14th poetry collection, in addition to five books of creative nonfiction. His poems have appeared in the American Poetry Review , The Atlantic , The New Yorker , Paris Review , The New Republic , Best American Poetry and elsewhere. He is recipient of the Amy Lowell Traveling Poetry Scholarship as well as grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Richard currently lives in Hawaii and spends his summers in Tennessee. See less