David Rivard

David Rivard was born in Fall River, Massachusetts, in 1953. He is the author of Standoff (Graywolf Press, 2016); Sugartown (Graywolf Press, 2005); Bewitched Playground (Graywolf Press, 2000); Wise Poison (Graywolf Press, 1996), which won the James Laughlin Award; and Torque (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1989), which won the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize in 1987 and was published by the Pitt Poetry Series.

Rivard’s other honors include two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and fellowships from the Massachusetts Arts Foundation and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. He has also received the Celia B. Wagner Award from the Poetry Society of America and a Pushcart Prize.

Rivard is a professor of English at the University of New Hampshire.