WriterB.H. Fairchild

B.H. Fairchild's The Art of the Lathe was a finalist for the National Book Award and also received the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and the William Carlos William Award. He has been the recipient of fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Lannan Foundation and is the author of Such Holy Song, a scholarly study of William Blake. His fourth book of poems, Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest, appeared from W.W. Norton in 2003 and received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Gold Medal in Poetry from the California Book Awards, and the Bobbitt Award from the Library of Congress. In 2005, Fairchild was honored with the Aiken/Taylor Modern Poetry Award from The Sewanee Review for the body of his work.