2004 Bobbitt Prize Winner
B. H. Fairchild was born in Houston, Texas, in 1942. He is the author of six collections of poetry, including Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest (2003), which received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the California Book Award, the Texas Institute for Letters Poetry Award, and the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry from the Library of Congress; The Art of the Lathe (1998), which was awarded the California Book Award, the PEN Center USA West Poetry Award, the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, the Williams Carlos Williams Award, and the Natalie Ornish Award from the Texas Institute for Letters; and most recently The Blue Buick: New and Selected Poems (2014). He has published the critical work Such Holy song: Music as Ideas, Form, and Image in the Poetry of William Blake (1980). Fairchild’s other honors include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation. He currently teaches within the PhD writing program at the University of North Texas.