Dan Beachy-Quick

Dan Beachy-Quick is the author of A Whaler’s Dictionary, a book of interlinked essays on Moby-Dick; Wonderful Investigations, a collection of essays, meditations, and tales; and Of Silence and Song, a collection of fragments, marginalia, travel writing, and poetry. He is also the author of numberous collections of poems, a novel, and other projects. The recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Woodberry Poetry Room at Harvard University, Beachy-Quick has also received the Colorado Book Award and has been a finalist for the William Carlos Williams Prize and the PEN/USA Literary Award in Poetry. He directs the MFA program at Colorado State University and lives in Fort Collins.