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 the Bennington Review, Conduit, Fence, New American Writing, Oversound, and other journals, as well as in the Academy of American Poet’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 poetry and philosophy have appeared in The Comparatist, 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.