Richard Siken is an American poet, painter, and filmmaker. He is the author of the collections Crush, which won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition, and War of the Foxes. Siken co-founded Spork Press, where he continues to work as an editor. Siken received a Literature Fellowship in Poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts, and Crush was awarded the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry and the Thom Gunn Award from Publishing Triangle. Siken’s book War of the Foxes became a recipient of two residencies with the Lannan Residency Program and a Lannan Literary Selection. Siken currently lives in Tucson, Arizona.