Richard Blanco's City of a Hundred Fires received the prestigious Starrett Prize from the University of Pittsburgh Press. His second book, Directions to The Beach of the Dead, won the PEN / American 2006 Beyond Margins Award. Blanco's poems on the Cuban-American experience and the poetics of place have appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies including Best American Poetry 2000 and have been featured on National Public Radio. He is recipient of a Bread Loaf Fellowship and a Florida Artist Fellowship. A former Assistant Professor, Blanco has taught at Georgetown, American University, and Connecticut State University. Like Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams, Blanco has led a duel life as a practicing civil engineer for over sixteen years in Miami.

The Indiana Review first published a poem of Mr. Blanco’s in Volume 20.2, “Tía Olivia Serves Wallace Stevens a Cuban Egg.” His next poem was published in Volume twenty-one, number one, “Teatro Martí.” This was followed by the poem “Time as Art in the Eternal City,” published in Volume twenty-five, number one. Mr. Blanco’s most recent publication with IR took place in Volume 26.1, which featured a non-fiction piece titled “Miami during La Revolución.”

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