Edgar Kunz

Assistant ProfessorCreative Writing

Edgar Kunz is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Goucher College and the Assistant Director of the Kratz Center for Creative Writing.

He is the author of two poetry collections: Fixer (Ecco, 2023), a New York Times Editors’ Choice Book, and Tap Out (Ecco, 2019).

He has been a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, a MacDowell Fellow, and a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. His writing also been supported by fellowships and awards from the Maryland State Arts Council, the Academy of American Poets, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation, which awarded him a 2024 Rubys Grant. Recent poems appear in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, American Poetry Review, and Oxford American.

He lives in Baltimore City.

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Publications

Fixer — Ecco/HarperCollins, 2023

Tap Out — Ecco/HarperCollins, 2019

Individual poems and essays published widely, including in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, American Poetry Review, Literary Hub, Poetry, Oxford American, and Yale Review, and featured/reprinted in The Slowdown, Poetry Daily, The Millions, NEA Writers’ Corner, and What Things Cost: An Anthology for the People, the first major anthology of labor writing in nearly a century.

Exhibits or Performances

Kunz has given more than a hundred readings and invited talks in the U.S. and abroad, including at New York University, George Washington University, University of Southern California, Vanderbilt University, Stanford University, UNC-Asheville, Binghamton University, University of Arizona Poetry Center, Chicago Poetry Center, The Brooklyn Book Festival, Green Apple Books, Powell’s Books, The Red Wheelbarrow (Paris), The Berlin Writers Workshop (Berlin), Burley Fisher Books (London), Temple University (Rome), and Hafnaurhaus (Reykjavik). He is represented by The Shipman Agency.

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