ATSURO RILEY is the author of Romey’s Order (University of Chicago Press, 2010), winner of the Whiting Award, the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, the Believer Poetry Award, and the Witter Bynner Award from the Library of Congress.
His work has been honored with the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America, the Lannan Foundation Literary Fellowship, the Pushcart Prize, and the Wood Prize given by Poetry magazine. Brought up in the South Carolina lowcountry, Riley lives in San Francisco.