Eduardo Corral | Visiting Faculty

Poetry

Eduardo C. Corral's poems have appeared in Best American Poetry 2012, New England Review, Ploughshares, and The New York Times. His work has been honored with a Discovery/The Nation Award, the J. Howard and Barbara M. J. Wood Prize from Poetry, and writing residencies to the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo. He has served as the Olive B. O'Connor Fellow in Creative Writing at Colgate University, and as the Philip Roth Resident in Creative Writing at Bucknell University. Slow Lightning, his first book of poems, was selected by Carl Phillips as the 2011 winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition. In 2016 he won the Holmes National Poetry Prize from Princeton University. His second poetry collection is Guillotine (2020), which was longlisted for the 2020 National Book Award for Poetry and the winner of the 2021 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry. Corral is the recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship.  

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