Derick Burleson

Derick Burleson is the author of Never Night (Marick Press, 2008). His first collection of poems, Ejo: Poems, Rwanda 1991-94, won the 2000 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry. He was also the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry. His poems appeared in the Georgia Review, the Kenyon Review, the Paris Review, Poetry magazine, and many other journals.

Burleson lived and taught English in Rwanda in the two years leading up to the genocide which took place in 1994. He later taught creative writing and literature at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and lived with his daughter in Two Rivers, Alaska. He died in December 2016.