David Bottoms

David Bottoms was born in Canton, Georgia, in 1949. His first book, Shooting Rats at the Bibb County Dump, was selected by Robert Penn Warren as winner of the 1979 Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets. His poems have appeared widely in magazines such as The Atlantic, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and Poetry, as well as in over four dozen anthologies and textbooks.

He is the author of six other books of poetry, including Armored Hearts: Selected and New Poems and Waltzing through the Endtime, as well as two novels. Among his many other awards are the Levinson and the Frederick Bock prizes from Poetry magazine, an Ingram Merrill Award, an Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

Bottoms holds the Amos Distinguished Chair in English Letters at Georgia State University and is Poet Laureate of Georgia.

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