In 2005, Yale University Press officially published Crush. Past winners include Adrienne Rich and John Ashbery. The award goes to a young poet who has yet to publish a collection of poems. Created in 1918, the prize represents the longest-running literary honor in the United States. In 2004, when Siken was in his thirties, his poetry collection Crush was selected by Louise Glück for Yale’s Younger Poets Prize. Spork makes its books by hand and has published contemporary poets like Ariana Reines and Paul Legault. In addition to poetry, Siken makes films, paints, and runs a small press and literary journal called Spork. (In the same interview, Siken admits to sometimes providing misleading information about himself.) In a 2018 interview with the poetry podcast " Commonplace," Siken said he wasn’t a social worker, but he did work at a group home for adults with a dual diagnosis. In a 2006 profile for the Poetry Foundation, Siken was described as a social worker. (Before Siken’s dad died, Siken’s dad admitted that he killed his first wife.) At the University of Arizona, Siken earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology and an MFA in poetry.
His mom was a therapist, and his dad was a lawyer.
He apparently grew up in Tucson, Arizona. Richard Siken’s biographical particulars are elusive and difficult to verify.
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