David Koehn has published poetry in 50 different publications including the New England Review, New York Quarterly, Alaska Quarterly Review, Rhino, Volt, and ZYZZYVA. A small collection of his poems, COIL, won the 1998 Midnight Sun Poetry Chapbook Contest, from the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. And has been re-issued this year see: http://lulu.com/coil/
David’s prose appears in Jacket, New Hampshire Review, New York Quarterly, and elsewhere. David translates Latin poetry and was recently awarded a Hendrix-Murphy Foundation Programs in Literature and Language Grant to lead a Catullus Translation Workshop/Reading at Hendrix University.
In the last two years, David was awarded residencies at Rockmirth, Vermont Studies, Leighton Studios at Bannff, and the Red Cinder Creativity Center. He’s previously been a fellow at the Aspen Writer’s Institute, Fishtrap Summer Gathering, and the Ropewalk Writer’s Conference. David was also an Annenberg fellow at the Breadloaf School of English. In addition, David attended the Squaw Valley Community of Writers and the Napa Valley Writer’s Conference in 2004 and 2006.
Also, David recently started, and contributes to, an online poetics blog partnered with Webdelsol at: http://greatamericanpinup.blogspot.com/. Currently David lives outside San Francisco, CA and works for the software start-up he founded, TailWind Solutions: http://tailwindinc.com. More information is available in summary form at the http://davidkoehn.com Web site.