“Haunting…
Kunz doesn’t flinch.”

“An arresting vision buoyed
by Kunz’s wry wit.”

“Stunningly beautiful…
Unsparing yet bouyant.”

“Affecting and lyrical…Kunz has written a beautiful book.”

Edgar Kunz is the author of two books: Fixer (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2023), a New York Times Editors’ Choice Book, and Tap Out (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2019).

He has been a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, a MacDowell Fellow, and a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. His work has also been supported by fellowships and awards from the Academy of American Poets, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and Vanderbilt University, where he earned his MFA. He was recently awarded a 2024 Rubys Artist Grant by the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation to support a new project.

Recent poems appear in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, American Poetry Review, Poetry, Yale Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, and Oxford American.

He lives in Baltimore where he teaches at Goucher College and in the Newport MFA.