“Haunting…
Kunz doesn’t flinch.”
“An arresting vision buoyed
by Kunz’s wry wit.”
“Stunningly beautiful…
Unsparing yet buoyant.”
“Affecting and lyrical…Kunz has written a beautiful book.”
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Edgar Kunz is the author of two books: Fixer (Ecco, 2023), a New York Times Editors’ Choice book, and Tap Out (Ecco, 2019), which The Washington Post calls “a gritty, insightful debut.”
He has been an NEA 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 Hawthornden Foundation, the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation, and Vanderbilt University.
Recent poems appear in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, and Poetry. He splits his time between Baltimore and Richmond, where he teaches in the MFA program at Virginia Commonwealth University and in the low-residency Newport MFA.