About

Rick Snyder is a poet, translator, and critic. He is the author of Here City (Parlor Press, 2021), Escape from Combray (Ugly Duckling, 2009) and six chapbooks. His poems have appeared in Barrow Street, Conduit, Fence, New American Writing, Oversound, and other journals, as well as in the Poetry Society of America’s Poem-A-Day project and the syndicated column American Life in Poetry. His translations of Catullus have appeared in Circumference, jubilat, Ping Pong, and Verse Daily, and his articles on modern and contemporary poetry and translation have appeared in Jacket, Occasion, and Radical Society. He has a Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of Southern California and is an associate teaching professor in the classics department at the University of California, Irvine.