| Intro | American poet and writer |
| Is |
Poet Writer |
| From | United States of America |
| Type | Literature |
Chip Livingston is an American poet and writer, based in Montevideo, Uruguay. He is a faculty mentor in the Low-Rez MFA program at Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe.
Early life and education
Livingston was born in Fort Walton Beach, Florida, and grew up in Pensacola, Florida.
He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Florida, a Masters degree in fiction writing from the University of Colorado. After receiving his masters, he became a teacher in the Virgin Islands.
He returned to America, moving to New York, where he worked as a personal assistant for the poet Kenward Elmslie, one of the founders of the New York School of poetry. Subsequently, he studied poetry at Brooklyn College in New York from where he graduated with an MFA degree.
Writing
In his literary works, Livingston explores justice, sexuality, and identity. He has authored the poetry chapbook Alarum (2007), the full-length collections Museum of False Starts (2010) and Crow-Blue, Crow-Black (2012), and a collection of essays and short stories, Naming Ceremony (2014).
His poems, stories and essays are widely published, in journals including Ploughshares, Cincinnati Review, Potomac Review, Prairie Schooner, South Dakota Review, Court Green, Subtropics, Crazyhorse and New American Writing, and in anthologies such as Best New Poets 2005, Best Gay Poetry 2008, SING: Poetry from the Indigenous Americas, Lovejets, Native Voices, and Confiado a un Amplio Aire.
Awards
Livingston has received writing awards from Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers, Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas, and the AABB Foundation.
His poems have been included in the anthologies Best Gay Poetry 2008 and Best New Poets 2005. He has received fellowships and residencies from the Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation and from Wildacres and three nominations for a Pushcart Prize.