Richard Siken is a poet and painter. His debut collection, Crush, was selected by Louise Glück for the 2004 Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize and went on to win a Lambda Literary Award and a Thom Gunn Award. It was also a finalist for both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the National Book Award. His second collection, War of the Foxes, was published by Copper Canyon Press in 2015, followed by I Do Know Some Things in 2025, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Siken has received fellowships from the Lannan Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He lives in Tucson, Arizona.