Srikanth Reddy

Srikanth Reddy (born 1973) is an American scholar and writer, including three full-length volumes of poetry.

Of Indian descent, his awards include a 2013 National Endowment for the Arts fellowship,^[1] a 2013 Creative Capital Award,^[2] and a 2018 Guggenheim fellowship.^[3] Reddy delivered the Bagley Wright Lectures in Poetry in fall 2015,^[4] and served as a judge for the Canadian 2019 Griffin Poetry Prize.^[5]

Early life and education

Reddy was born in the United States to Telugu physician parents from southern India.^[6] He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree and a Doctor of Philosophy degree from Harvard University, and a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Iowa Writers' Workshop.

Career

He is Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Chicago.^[7][8]

His poetry has been published in Jacket magazine,^[9] Poetry Northwest,^[10] Harper's Magazine,^[11] and The Guardian,^[12] and his literary criticism has appeared in The New York Times, Lana Turner, Raritan, PEN America, and other publications.^[13]

In October 2021, Reddy was announced as the editor of Phoenix Poets, a book series published by the University of Chicago Press,^[14] and in December 2022, he assumed the role of poetry editor for The Paris Review.^[15]

Works

• Facts for Visitors: Poems. University of California Press. March 20, 2004. ISBN 978-0-520-93759-8.^[16][17]
• Voyager. University of California Press. January 8, 2011. ISBN 978-0-520-94826-6.^[18]
• Readings in World Literature Omnidawn Pub., 2012, ISBN 9781890650643
• Changing Subjects: Digressions in Modern American Poetry. Oxford University Press, USA. July 12, 2012. ISBN 978-0-19-979102-6.
• Underworld Lit. Wave Books. August 4, 2020. ISBN 9781940696935.^[19]
• The Unsignificant. Wave Books. September 17, 2024. ISBN 9798891060067.^[20]