Richie Hofmann’s new book of poems, The Bronze Arms, is forthcoming from Alfred A. Knopf.

Richie Hofmann is the recipient of a 2025 Guggenheim Fellowship and a 2025 Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. His poetry appears in two previous collections, A Hundred Lovers (2022) and Second Empire (2015), and in The Paris Review, The New Yorker, Poetry, and The Yale Review, as well as the Best American Poetry anthology. His honors include the Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation and the Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University. He currently teaches in the Humanities Core at the University of Chicago.