The Puerto Rican Literature Project

Puerto Rican poet Randall Mann was born in 1972 in Provo, Utah. As a child, he lived in Utah, Kentucky, and Florida with his family. He received his BA and MFA degrees at the University of Florida. In 1998, he moved to San Francisco, California, where he still lives. Mann received the 2003 Kenyon Review Prize in Poetry for Complaint in the Garden (Zoo Press, 2004). In 2010, the San Francisco public library named him Poet Laureate. His works have been recognized as finalists for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry, the Northern California Book Award, and the California Book Award. Mann received the 2013 J. Howard and Barbara M.J. Wood Prize from Poetry. Mann’s works include Breakfast with Thom Gunn (The University of Chicago Press, 2009), Straight Razor (Persea Books, 2013), Proprietary (Persea Books, 2017), and A Better Life (Persea Books, 2021). He currently teaches at Bennington College’s writing program.

Works Cited

“MFA in Writing Faculty.” Bennington College, https://www.bennington.edu/academics/faculty/aos?aos=96. 

Hoffman, Michael and David Leavitt. “Spring 2020 Newsletter.” MFA@FLA: Creative Writing, University of Florida, 2020, https://mfa.english.ufl.edu/mfafla-newsletter-spring-2015/spring-2020-newsletter/. 

“Randall Mann.” GetLit, https://getlitanthology.org/poets/457/.

“Randall Mann.” Poetry Foundation, https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/randall-mann.

“Randall Mann.” Poets.org, https://poets.org/poet/randall-mann.