About

Andy Eaton received the Henry Hoyns Fellow at the University of Virginia. He is author of a pamphlet of poems, Sprung Nocturne (Lifeboat Press, 2016). 

His poems have received the Ireland Chair of Poetry Travel Award, the Ploughshares Emerging Writer Award  (selected by Natalie Diaz), the Tupelo Quarterly Poetry Prize (selected by former U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith), an ACEs award from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, and funding from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Community of Writers, and the University of Virginia. 

Previously the Director of the Humanities Program at Miller School of Albemarle, he serves as Creative Writing Program Manager for the University of Virginia. He has taught at the University of Virginia, Oxford Brookes University, and the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry where he earned a PhD in English from Queen’s University, Belfast. His poems appear in or are forthcoming from Colorado Review, cream city review, Kenyon Review Online, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, and The Yale Review, among other places.

He is at work on a book of poems, a memoir on emerging from transient evangelicalism, and a critical study on the elegy in global anglophone literature.