Santa Clara University

Kirk Glaser teaches creative writing at Santa Clara University, where he serves as Director of the Creative Writing Program and Faculty Advisor to the Santa Clara Review, and runs the Writing Forward Reading Series. His poetry has been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize, and his poetry and fiction have appeared in The Threepenny Review, Nimrod, Chicago Quarterly Review, The American Journal of Poetry, Split Rock Review, The Worcester Review, Catamaran, Third Street Review, and elsewhere. His poetry collection, The House That Fire Built, will be published in 2025 by Mad Hat Press. Awards for his work include an American Academy of Poets prize, C. H. Jones National Poetry Prize, and University of California Poet Laureate Award. He is co-editor of the anthology, New California Writing 2013, Heyday.