Richard Hoffman

Richard Alexander Hoffman is an American poet from San Antonio, Texas.

Richard has studied writing and poetry for over 30 years under some of the most influential writers of today including Naomi Shihab Nye, Yusef Komunyakaa, Mark Doty, Li-Young Lee, Chuck Palaniuk, Margaret Attwood, Grace Paley, Irvine Welsh, and Wole Soyinka.

In 2006 he was named Alden B. Dow Creativity Fellow of Northwood University for his “contributions to American poetry” and for developing and naming the poetic form known as Parallax Poetry.

He currently resides in Wellington, New Zealand with his wife and two sons.