Frederick Speers
Frederick Speers is the author of So Far Afield (Nomadic Press 2017), a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry. Mr. Speers is a former Thoreau Fellow at the Vermont Studio Center, and his poems appear in AGNI; Salamander Magazine; The Drum; The Straddler; Ofi Press Magazine; Diode Poetry Journal; Forklift, Ohio; and Visible Binary.
A graduate of Boston University’s Creative Writing Program, he has since worked as a professional editor and content strategist for two decades, for both high-tech companies and academic publishers, including Oxford University Press, where he published, among other books, the second edition of Oxford’s Anthology of Modern and Contemporary American Poetry (Volumes 1 and 2), winner of the 2015 New York Book Show Award in School Publishing.
He lives in Denver, Colorado with his husband and their two dogs.
