Connor Yeck is a creative writer, editor, and educator originally from Ludington, Michigan. He holds an MFA from Western Michigan University, where he edited for Third Coast and New Issues Poetry and Prose. A former Associate Editor at The Cincinnati Review, he received his PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Cincinnati, and is currently a science writer at Michigan State University.
Connor’s creative writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Scientific American, Best New Poets, Prairie Schooner, Ninth Letter, Passages North, Nashville Review, Willow Springs, Asimov’s Science Fiction, The Journal, Strange Horizons, Carolina Quarterly, Denver Quarterly, Smartish Pace, phoebe, Columbia, The Southampton Review: Online, The Gettysburg Review, and Waters Deep: A Great Lakes Poetry Anthology.
His science writing has appeared or contributed to articles in Newsweek, Futurity, Earth.com, Astrobiology, IFLS, Yahoo News, the National Science Foundation, the DOE Office of Science and elsewhere.
He is the recipient of a 2023 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship, as well as awards from Indiana Review, Sonora Review, Crab Orchard Review, JuxtaProse, and the Tennessee Williams / New Orleans Literary Festival. He has been a finalist for the Pablo Neruda Prize in Poetry, the Erskine J. Poetry Prize, the Peseroff Prize in Poetry, the Wabash Prize in Poetry, and the Brittingham and Felix Pollak Prizes in Poetry, and recent work of his been nominated for a Pushcart, Best of the Net, as well as long-listed for the Vice-Chancellor’s International Poetry Prize.
He writes about all things pop culture, science, history, film, future, and atomic.
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