Poetic Obituaries: Craig Arnold received his BA in English

from Yale University and his PhD in creative writing from the University of Utah. Arnold's two collections of poems are Shells (1999), selected by W.S. Merwin as the winner of the Yale Younger Poets Award, and Made Flesh (2008), published by Ausable Press.

He received various honors and awards, including the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize, the Amy Lowell Traveling Poetry Scholarship, the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the US-Japan Creative Artists Exchange Fellowship, the Alfred Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, a Dobie Paisano Residency, a Fulbright Scholarship, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship.

from One Poet's Notes: Recalling Craig Arnold
also Paul Lisicky: Craig Arnold, in Memory
also Los Angeles Times: Jacket Copy: Missing poet Craig Arnold presumed dead

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