Richard Tayson's first book of poetry, The Apprentice of Fever (Kent State University Press, 1998), was the 1997 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize winner. Tayson's other awards include a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, Prairie Schooner's Edward Stanley Award, and a Pushcart Prize. Tayson's co-authored book of non-fiction, Look Up for Yes (1998), appeared on bestseller lists in Germany, and has been included in Reader's Digest's Today's Best Nonfiction in the United States, Germany and Australia. He lives in Queens, New York
