Richard Froude

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Richard Froude was born in London in 1979, grew up in Bristol, and came to the US in 2002. He has written three books: FABRIC (Horse Less Press, 2011), The Passenger (Skylight Press, 2012) and Tarnished Mirrors: Translations of Charles Baudelaire (Muffled Cry Editions, 2004). His writing has appeared in print and online in a wide variety of publications including ConjunctionsWitnessDiagramTarpaulin SkyBombay GinBirkensnake and many others. He has read and performed his work widely - including appearances on public radio in California, Oregon, and Colorado. In 2014, his visual work was included in the Modern Masters exhibition at the Denver Art Museum. He holds an MFA from Naropa’s Jack Kerouac School, a PhD in English from the University of Denver as the 2010–11 Evan Frankel Fellow, and is the recipient of the 2013 Wabash Prize for Nonfiction. He teaches MFA students in the Naropa Summer Writing Program as well as year-round classes in nonfiction and experimental forms at the Lighthouse Writers Workshop.

Prize anthology mentions

Best American Essays 2012*

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