Richard Tillinghast is the author of ten books of poetry, the most recent being Sewanee Poems and Selected Poems, both 2009. In 2008 he published Finding Ireland: A Poet’s Explorations of Irish
Literature and Culture. He has received grants from the Irish Arts Council, the British Council, and the NEH, was awarded the Amy Lowell Travelling Fellowship from Harvard, and is a 2010-11 Guggenheim Fellow.