Richard Tillinghast has published 14 books of poetry and five works of creative nonfiction including Finding Ireland: A Poet’s Explorations of Irish Literature and Culture, and Istanbul: City of Forgetting and Remembering. His 13th book of poems, Blue If Only I Could Tell You, winner of the White Pine Press Poetry Prize, came out in 2022; his new book, Night Train to Memphis, is out this year, also from White Pine. He studied with Robert Lowell at Harvard and wrote a critical memoir, Robert Lowell’s Life and Work: Damaged Grandeur. In 2010 he was awarded a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in poetry, along with a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in translation for Dirty August— his versions of poems by the Turkish poet Edip Cansever— written in collaboration with his daughter, the poet Julia Clare Tillinghast. He has been a faculty member at Harvard, UC Berkeley, Sewanee, Trinity College Dublin, and the University of Michigan, and is one of the founders of Bear River. Richard retired from the University of Michigan in 2005 and lived in Ireland for six years, moving back to this country in 2011. He now lives most of the year in Hawaii and spends his summers in Tennessee.