Cynthia Arrieu-King

Cynthia Arrieu-King is an American poet with Chinese heritage.

Early life

Cynthia Arrieu-King was raised in Louisville, Kentucky.

Career

Cynthia Arrieu-King is the author of four collections of poetry, People are Tiny in Paintings of China ; Manifest ; Futureless Languages and Continuity. She also co-wrote a chapbook with Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis By a Year Lousy with Meteors and a book-length collaborative volume of poetry with the late Hillary Gravendyk, Unlikely Conditions.
Arrieu-King edited the anthology-length Asian Anglophone issue of dusie.
Cynthia Arrieu-King works as a professor of creative writing at Stockton University. Through the campus radio station 91.7 WLFR, she produced the show The Last Word from 2011 to 2013, and rebooted it from 2022 to the end of 2024: Episodes can be found on Spotify.

Awards and honors

Manifest won the 2013 Gatewood Prize selected by Harryette Mullen.

Works

Poetry

2006 The Small Anything City ISBN not available
2010 People are Tiny in Paintings of China
2013 Manifest
2018 Futureless Languages
2021 Continuity ISBN 978-1733455114

Collaborations

2016 By Some Miracle a Year Lousy with Meteors with Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis
2017 Unlikely Conditions with Hillary Gravendyk

Poems

"Everybody Believes They are the Good Guy," in Poetry Magazine
"Something Beyond Interpretation, Lobster, and empire," in Bomb Magazine
"Saga," American Poetry Review

Creative non-fictionThe Betweens ISBN 978-1934819951
Short fiction

"Boxes," in The Collagist
"Franny," in Joyland Magazine
"Roads Impassable," in ''StorySouth''