Doug Ramspeck is the author of eight collections of poetry, one collection of short stories, and a novella. One recent book of poems, Black Flowers (2018), was published by LSU Press. Other recent books include Book of Years (2021), Under Black Leaves (2020), Distant Fires, winner of the 2019 Grayson Books Poetry Contest, The Owl That Carries Us Away (2018), winner of the 2016 G. S. Sharat Chandra Prize for Short Fiction, and Original Bodies (2016), winner of the Michael Waters Poetry Prize and published by Southern Indiana Review Press. He is also the author of Mechanical Fireflies (2011), selected by Mary Ruefle for the Barrow Street Press Poetry Book Prize, Possum Nocturne (2010), and Black Tupelo Country (2008), which received the 2007 John Ciardi Prize for Poetry. His chapbook, Where We Come From, appeared in 2009.
Hundreds of Ramspeck's poems have been published by literary journals that include The Kenyon Review, Slate, The Georgia Review, The Southern Review, and The Missouri Review. His short fiction has appeared in Southwest Review, Iowa Review, Narrative, The Southern Review, The Georgia Review, South Carolina Review, and many others.
He is a three-time recipient of an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, a finalist for the UNT Rilke Prize, and the winner of the McGinnis-Ritchie Award for Fiction.A retired professor from The Ohio State University at Lima, he taught creative writing and literature there for more than two decades. He lives now in Black Mountain, North Carolina.
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