Cynthia Arrieu-King

Cynthia Arrieu-King is an American poet with Chinese heritage.

Early life Cynthia Arrieu-King was raised in Louisville, Kentucky.

Career

Cynthia Arrieu-King is the author of four collections of poetry, People are Tiny in Paintings of China (2010); Manifest (2013); Futureless Languages (2018)

Cynthia Arrieu-King works as a professor of creative writing at Stockton University. Through the campus radio station 91.7 WLFR, she produced the show The Last Word from 2011 to 2013, and rebooted it from 2022 to the end of 2024: Episodes can be found on Spotify.

Awards and honors Manifest won the 2013 Gatewood Prize selected by Harryette Mullen.

Works Poetry

2006 The Small Anything City, Dream Horse Press, chapbook 2010 People are Tiny in Paintings of China, Octopus Books, 2013 Manifest, Switchback Books 2018 Futureless Languages, Radiator Press 2021 Continuity, Octopus Books

Collaborations

2016 By Some Miracle a Year Lousy with Meteors with Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis, Dream Horse Press 2017 Unlikely Conditions with Hillary Gravendyk, 1913 Press

Poems

2017 "Something Beyond Interpretation," "Lobster," and "empire," in Bomb Magazine 2017 "Everybody Believes They are the Good Guy," in Poetry Magazine 2019 "Saga," American Poetry Review Creative non-fiction

2021 The Betweens, Noemi Press

Short fiction

2015 "Boxes," in The Collagist 2015 "Franny," in Joyland Magazine "Roads Impassable," in StorySouth