“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.”

 

 
 
 

Edgar Kunz is the author of two poetry collections: Fixer, published by Ecco in 2023 and named a New York Times Editors’ Choice Book, and Tap Out, published by Ecco in 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, and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. Recent poems appear in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, American Poetry Review, and Oxford American.

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