Fred Dings

Courtesy of the poet.

Fred Dings was born and raised in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He earned his MFA at the Iowa Writer’s Workshop and PhD at the University of Utah, where he studied with Mark Strand and Larry Levis. His books of poetry include The Four Rings: New & Selected Poems (SFA Press, 2020), Eulogy for a Private Man (TriQuarterly Books, 1999), After the Solstice (Orchises Press, 1993), and two chapbooks, Vespers and The Bruised Sky (Aralia Press, 1988). His work has appeared in the New Republic, the New Yorker, the Paris Review, Poetry magazine, TriQuarterly, World Literature Today, and many other periodicals. Dings currently teaches at the University of South Carolina.