Richie Hofmann is the author of a collection of poems, Second Empire (Alice James Books, 2015), winner of the Beatrice Hawley Award from Alice James Books. His poems have appeared recently in The New Yorker, Poetry, The New York Times Style Magazine, and The Baffler, and have been honored with the Poetry Foundation’s Ruth Lilly Fellowship, the Pushcart Prize, and the Wallace Stegner Fellowship, among other prizes. He is currently Jones Lecturer in Poetry at Stanford University.