In Eaton’s capable hands, music becomes a poignant accompaniment to grief and fear, and a vehicle for departure, or deliverance.

-Tracy K. Smith

The energy in the poems is quiet yet palpable, as if writing them down was a risk, a danger—as poems should be, maybe—a danger to see, to feel, to return to in memory or imagination.

-Natalie Diaz

A man with glasses and a beard stands against a textured grey wall, wearing a beige jacket and dark shirt, with a relaxed expression.

Andy Eaton‘s poems appear in Copper Nickel, The Iowa Review, The Yale Review, and elsewhere.

His work has received the Ploughshares Emerging Writer Award in Poetry, and scholarships from the Community of Writers, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, the Ireland Chair of Poetry, Queen’s University Belfast and the University of Virginia.

He divides his time between Northern Ireland and Charlottesville, Virginia where he manages the Creative Writing Program at the University of Virginia.