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Faculty Fellow

Srikanth "Chicu" Reddy

Professor of English and Creative Writing University of Chicago

Biography

Srikanth Reddy is a poet and literary editor interested in poetry across a range of forms, historical periods, and regions. His latest book of poetry, Underworld Lit, was a finalist for the Griffin International Poetry Prize, the Poetry Society of America’s T.S. Eliot Four Quartets Prize, and a Times Literary Supplement “Book of the Year” for 2020. He is currently the poetry editor of The Paris Review, and a co-editor of the Phoenix Poets book series at the University of Chicago Press.

The recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Creative Capital Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts, Reddy’s writing has appeared in Harper’s, The Guardian (UK), The New York Times, and The Washington Post. His book of lectures on poetry and painting, The Unsignificant, is forthcoming from Wave Books in September.

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