Richard Tillinghast, an American poet who lives in Ireland, is the author of ten books of poetry. The most recent are The New Life, 2008, Sewanee Poems (with lithographs by Joseph Winkelman) and Selected Poems, both 2009, as well as Dirty August, translations from the Turkish poet Edip Cansever, also 2009, in collaboration with Julia Clare Tillinghast-Akalin. For their Cansever translations, the father-daughter team received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2008 Richard also published Finding Ireland: A Poet’s Explorations of Irish Literature and Culture. He has received grants from the Irish Arts Council and the British Council, was awarded the Amy Lowell Travelling Fellowship from Harvard, and is a 2010-11 Guggenheim Fellow. Tillinghast has also been awarded the James Dickey Prize for poetry and the Cleanth Brooks Prize for creative non-fiction. He is currently working on a book about Istanbul.

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