Sam Truitt

Sam Truitt is the author of Vertical Elegies 5: The Section, Anamorphosis Eisenhower and Street Mete. An excerpt of Raton Rex (from Three Works) was selected for The Best American Poetry 2002 (Scribner), and his work has also been anthologized in American Poetry: The Next Generation (Carnegie Mellon, 2000). His poems have appeared in Fence, Ploughshares, Denver Quarterly, Boston Review, Explosive, Jacket, Talisman, and First Intensity, among other journals. His critical writing and reviews have appeared in Fulcrum, Interim, and the American Book Review, among other publications. His works of visual poetry have been exhibited at the Rothstein Gallery, Tonic, and the St. Marks Poetry Project (see www.ubu.com). His writing is in a semi-permanent installation at the Paramount Hotel’s Whiskey Bar at Times Square in New York City. He received a 1995 Fund for Poetry grant and has been awarded residencies at Yaddo, MacDowell and Vermont Studio Center. Truitt was the recipient of the 2002 Contemporary Poetry Series Award from the University of Georgia Press. He holds an MFA from Brown and a BA from Kenyon, and he is currently a PhD candidate at University at Albany, where he teaches as well, in addition to teaching at College of St. Rose and Bard College. In the past, he has taught at Hunter College, Fordham University, the New University and Empire State College’s Harry Van Arsdale Center for Labor Studies, among other institutions. Truitt was born in Washington, DC, and raised there and in Tokyo, Japan. He is married to Kim Jaye, and together they have two daughters, Indiana and Evangeline.