RICHARD SIKEN is a poet and painter. His book Crush won the 2004 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize, selected by Louise Glück; a Lambda Literary Award; and a Thom Gunn Award; and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His other books are War of the Foxes (Copper Canyon Press, 2015) and I Do Know Some Things (Copper Canyon Press, 2025). He is a recipient of fellowships from Lannan Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He lives in Tucson, Arizona.