David St. John has been honored, over the course of his career, with many of the most significant prizes for poets, including fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, both the Rome Fellowship and an Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, the O. B. Hardison Prize from The Folger Shakespeare Library, and a grant from the Ingram Merrill Foundation. His work has been published in countless literary magazines, including The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Poetry, American Poetry Review, Harper's, Antaeus, and The New Republic, and has been widely anthologized. He has taught creative writing at Oberlin College and The Johns Hopkins University and currently teaches at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, where he is the Director of The Ph. D. Program in Literature and Creative Writing. David St. John is the author of nine collections of poetry, most recently The Face: A Novella in Verse, as well as a volume of essays, interviews and reviews entitled Where the Angels Come Toward Us.

List of Publications

Poetry

• Hush
• No Heaven
• Terraces of Rain
• Study for the World's Body:
  New & Selected Poems
• The Red Leaves of Night
• In the Pines:
  Lost Poems 1972-1997
• The Face: A Novella In Verse

Nonfiction

• Where the Angels Come Toward Us: Selected Essays, Reviews, and Interviews