Sam Truitt

Sam Truitt was born in Washington, DC, and raised there and in Tokyo, Japan. He is the author of the ten works in the VERTICAL ELEGIES series, TOKYOATOTO (Station Hill Press, 2020), among others in print and other media, and the co-editor of INFILTRATION (Station Hill Press, 2016); and Eating the Colors of a Lineup of Words: The Early Books of Bernadette Mayer. Robert Creeley likened Truitt to a contemporary Everyman, and he is the recipient, among other recognitions, of numerous Fund for...See more

Sam Truitt was born in Washington, DC, and raised there and in Tokyo, Japan. He is the author of the ten works in the VERTICAL ELEGIES series, TOKYOATOTO (Station Hill Press, 2020), among others in print and other media, and the co-editor of INFILTRATION (Station Hill Press, 2016); and Eating the Colors of a Lineup of Words: The Early Books of Bernadette Mayer. Robert Creeley likened Truitt to a contemporary Everyman, and he is the recipient, among other recognitions, of numerous Fund for Poetry awards, a Contemporary Poetry Award from the University of Georgia, and a Howard Fellowship. The producer and a co-host of the podcast Baffling Combustions and Director of Station Hill Press, he lives in Woodstock, NY. See less