Craig Arnold

Craig Arnold (November 16, 1967 – c. April 27, 2009) was an American poet, professor, and musician. He gained recognition with his first book of poems, Shells (1999), which was selected by W. S. Merwin for the Yale Series of Younger Poets. Arnold received numerous honors throughout his career, including the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize Fellowship in literature, the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Fellowship, and a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship. He taught poetry at the University of Wyoming and his work appeared in prestigious anthologies and literary journals such as The Best American Poetry and The Paris Review. Arnold held a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Yale University and a Ph.D. in creative writing from the University of Utah.