RICHARD SIKEN se yon powèt ak yon pent. Liv li a, Crush, te genyen pri Yale Series of Younger Poets an 2004, se Louise Glück ki te chwazi l; li te resevwa yon Lambda Literary Award ak yon Thom Gunn Award; epi li te finalis pou National Book Critics Circle Award la. Lòt liv li yo se War of the Foxes (Copper Canyon Press, 2015) ak I Do Know Some Things (Copper Canyon Press, 2025). Li resevwa bous etid nan men Fondasyon Lannan ak National Endowment for the Arts. Li abite Tucson, Arizona.