Daniel Rzicznek joins the Festival in cooperation with the Brigham Young University English Department Reading Series, the Utah State University English Department, and Utah State University Press.

F. Daniel Rzicznek teaches at Bowling Green State University, where he obtained an MFA and served as poetry editor for Mid-American Review. His chapbook of prose poems entitled Cloud Tablets won the 2004 Wick Poetry Center Chapbook Competition and was published by Kent State University Press in 2006. He has published poems in journals such as Elixir, Notre Dame Review, and Fugue. Neck of the World, his first book-length collection of poems, won the 2007 May Swenson Poetry Award and has just been published by USU Press. Rzicznek will be presented with the award on Wednesday, October 24, and will give a reading on Saturday, October 27.