David Trinidad

David Trinidad’s most recent book, Phoebe 2002: An Essay in Verse, written in collaboration with Jeffery Conway and Lynn Crosbie and based on the film All About Eve, was published by Turtle Point Press in 2003. His previous book, Plasticville (Turtle Point, 2000), was a finalist for the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize of the Academy of American Poets. He is the author of ten other books of poetry, among them Answer Song (High Risk Books), Hand Over Heart: Poems 1981-1988 (Amethyst Press), and Pavane (Sherwood Press).

In addition to his own books of poetry, he has edited Powerless, the selected poems of Tim Dlugos, and Hello Joe: A Tribute to Joe Brainard (with Elaine Equi and William Corbett). He co-edited (with Maxine Scates) Holding Our Own: The Selected Poems of Ann Stanford. His poems have appeared in various periodicals and anthologies. He received a B.A. from California State University, Northridge and an M.F.A. from Brooklyn College, and is a member of the Core Poetry Faculty and Director of the Graduate Poetry Program at Columbia College Chicago.