David Trinidad - Columbia College Chicago

David Trinidad

Professor

dtrinidad@colum.edu

Biography

David Trinidad is a Professor of Poetry in the English and Creative Writing Department. He is the author of more than twenty books of poetry, collaborations, and edited volumes. These include Swinging on a Star (2017), Notes on a Past Life (2016), Peyton Place: A Haiku Soap Opera (2013), Dear Prudence: New and Selected Poems (2011), The Late Show (2007), and Pasticville (2000), finalist for the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. Trinidad is editor of A Fast Life: The Collected Poems of Tim Dlugos (2011), which won a Lambda Literary Award.

Instructional Areas

Poetry

Creative Practice and Research Interests

Sylvia Plath

Degrees

B.A., English California State University 1979
M.F.A., Creative Writing City University of New York Brooklyn College 1990