Outtakes Studio / Ariana Mygatt

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

He is a 2026 Guggenheim Fellow. He has also received fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, MacDowell, the Hawthornden Foundation, the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation, Vanderbilt University, and Stanford University, where he was a Wallace Stegner Fellow.

His work appears in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Poetry, Oxford American, and American Poetry Review.

He splits his time between Baltimore and Richmond, where he teaches in the English Department and MFA program at VCU.

He next book is about growing up in a medieval anachronist society.