John Liles

John Liles is an American poet, science writer, and educator. He won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize in 2024 for his debut poetry collection, Bees, and After.

Biography Liles graduated from the MFA program at New York University. His debut chapbook, Following the dog down, won the Omnidawn Chapbook Prize in 2017.

In 2024, Liles was named winner of the Yale Younger Poets award, selected by Rae Armantrout. Armantrout described his winning manuscript, Bees, and After, as "dense, sonically gorgeous studies of various natural things and creatures, including light, bees, minerals, shellfish and crabs, insects, and the workings (and failures) of the heart."

Liles' poems have appeared in Scientific American and Sonora Review. He currently lives in Fort Bragg, California. Chapbooks

Liles, J. (2017). Following the dog down. Richmond, CA: Omnidawn Publishing.