Kevin Prufer is the author of ten books, most recently Sleepaway: A Novel (Acre Books, 2024) and The Fears: Poems (Copper Canyon Press, 2023), winner of the 2024 Rilke Prize for American Poetry. He is also the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Lannan Foundation. Professor Prufer’s recent poetry collections have won the Julie Suk Award, been short-listed for the Rilke Prize and long-listed for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize, and earned spots on best-of-the-year lists from the New York Times, Publishers Weekly, and BookList. He is a professor in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston.
(Spring 2023, Fall 2024, Fall 2025)