David Biespiel

David Biespiel is the author of many books poetry, criticism, memoir, and fiction, and editor of two anthologies. His collections of poetry include Wild Civility (2003), The Book of Men and Women (2009), Charming Gardeners (2013), and Republic Café (2019). His books of nonfiction include A Place of Exodus: Home, Memory, and Texas (Kelson Books, 2020, memoir); The Education of a Young Poet (Counterpoint, 2017, memoir), which was selected a Best Books for Writers by Poets & Writers; A Long High Whistle: Selected Columns on Poetry (Antilever, 2015, criticism), and Every Writer Has a Thousand Faces, (Kelson Books, 2010), with a tenth anniversary edition, introduced by novelist Chuck Palahniuk, published in 2020. His first novel, A Self-Portrait in the Year of the High Commission on Love, was published in 2023.

Biespiel's honors include National Endowment for the Arts and Stegner fellowships, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award, two Oregon Book Awards (in poetry and nonfiction), and twice a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Balakian Award. He is the Poet-in-Residence at Oregon State University and lives in Portland.