Timothy Liu
Timothy Liu is an American poet and the author of such books as Bending the Mind Around the Dream's Blown Fuse, For Dust Thou Art, Of Thee I Sing, Hard Evidence, Say Goodnight, Burnt Offerings and Vox Angelica. He is also the editor of Word of Mouth: An Anthology of Gay American Poetry.
Liu received his B.A. in English from Brigham Young University and his M.A. in Poetry from the University of Houston; he also studied at the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst where he met his husband, the artist Christopher Arabadjis. Liu was a Professor of English at William Paterson University until he took early retirement in January 2022. He currently teaches at SUNY New Paltz and Vassar College. He has also taught at Hampshire College, Cornell College, University of California Berkeley, University of North Carolina Wilmington, University of Michigan, Tulane University, and in the Graduate Writing Seminars at Bennington College. His journals and papers are archived in the Berg Collection at the New York Public Library.
Works
Vox Angelica Burnt Offerings Say Goodnight Hard Evidence Of Thee I Sing For Dust Thou Art Bending the Mind Around the Dream's Blown Fuse Polytheogamy Don't Go Back To Sleep Kingdom Come: A Fantasia Luminous Debris: New & Selected Legerdemain 1992-2017 Let It Ride Down Low and Lowdown: Bedside Bottom-Feeder Blues;As editorWord of Mouth: An Anthology of Gay American Poetry
;Included inHarvest: Contemporary Mormon Poems 2002 Best American Poetry 2011 Pushcart Prize