Ralph Burns was born in Norman, Oklahoma, in 1949, and received an MFA from the University of Montana. He has published seven books of poems: But Not Yet; Ghost Notes, winner of the Field Poetry Prize; Swamp Candles (1996); Mozart's Starling (1990); Any Given Day (1985); Windy Tuesday Nights (1984); and US (1983).
Burns has published in many magazines including The Atlantic, Poetry, The Kenyon Review, and Field. He has won a number of awards including the Blue Lynx Poetry Prixe, the Field Poetry Prize, the Iowa Poetry Prize, the Great Lakes Colleges Award for the Best First Book in Poetry, and received two fellowships in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts.
He edited Crazyhorse and was a professor of creative writing at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. He currently resides in Fair Lawn, New Jersey.
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