Srikanth Reddy

Srikanth Reddy is the author of Underworld Lit (Wave Books, 2020); Conversities (1913 Press, 2012), with Dan Beachy-Quick; Voyager (University of California Press, 2011); and Facts for Visitors (University of California Press, 2004). He is also the author of the selection of lectures titled The Unsignificant: Three Talks on Poetry and Pictures (Wave Books, 2024), initially presented for the Bagley Wright Lecture Series in 2015.

Reddy has received fellowships from the Creative Capital Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

A finalist for both the Griffin Award and the T. S. Eliot Four Quartets Prize, Reddy is a professor of English and creative writing at the University of Chicago. He is also the poetry editor at The Paris Review and a coeditor of the Phoenix Poets book series at the University of Chicago Press.