Ralph Culver

Ralph Culver was born in Champaign, Illinois and grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Since the 1970s, apart from a year or so spent in New York City, he has lived in Vermont. He studied creative writing and literature at Goddard College (Vermont), the New School (New York City), and the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College (North Carolina), and filmmaking at the University of Vermont. His poetry, fiction, and criticism have appeared in numerous publications, and he is a past grantee in poetry of the Vermont Arts Council among other awards and citations. Culver's first poetry collection, "Both Distances," won the 2012 Anabiosis Press Chapbook Prize; his second, the highly praised "So Be It," was published in 2018. His new full-length collection, "A Passable Man" (MadHat Press, 2021), is available now from the publisher, in bookstores, and through the usual internet channels. His poems have been anthologized and reprinted in print and online, and he is a popular lecturer and reader of his work, having given many poetry readings in public spaces over the years.