Edgar Kunz

Edgar Kunz is the author of Tap Out, a New York Times "New & Noteworthy" pick. His writing has been supported by fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, MacDowell, Vanderbilt University, and Stanford University, where he was a Wallace Stegner Fellow. His poems appear widely, including in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and Poetry. He lives in Baltimore and teaches at Goucher College.

Unspendable Currency: Edgar Kunz on Making Ends Meet As a Poet

"The job makes the real work possible. The place you live is only as good as the life it allows."

August 22, 2023 By Edgar Kunz

Writing Poetry to Find a Father Worth Grieving

We Are All Unreliable Narrators When It Comes to Family

March 20, 2019 By Edgar Kunz

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