Bryan Roth is a writer, poet, literary editor, manuscript consultant, and teacher. His prose has been published internationally; his poems have appeared in Atlanta Review, The Flying Island, Fringe, Paradigm, Southern Indiana Review, and other publications. He has three chapbooks forthcoming in 2024: What You're Up Against, Triptych, and Two Tigers. He is also working on a full-length poetry collection, Building the Day, as well as a novel.

 

Mr. Roth has won awards for his poetry, his editing, and his writing, including a journalism award from the Society of Professional Journalists. He is also the founder and editor-in-chief of a new poetry press, Carpe Diem! Press, which will begin publishing poetry chapbooks in 2024.

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As an undergraduate at Indiana University, Bryan studied poetry with Roger Mitchell, David Wojahn, the late Lynda Hull, and others, and has studied with many noted poets in post-graduate workshops, including Stephen Dobyns, Lynn Emanuel, Edward Hirsch, Andrew Hudgins, Sherod Santos, and Pulitzer Prize-winners (and poets laureate) Mona Van Duyn and Charles Simic.

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Bryan has also been involved with planning poetry events and running poetry workshops for over twenty-five years, first with the Indianapolis Writers’ Center (now the Indiana Writers Center) and the Indiana Poets Association, and since moving to Colorado, with the Colorado Poets Association, which he founded in 2005. He has also been a poetry editor for over thirty years, including being a former member of the editorial staff of the Colorado-based literary journal, Many Mountains Moving. He has twice been a poetry judge for the Colorado Book Award for poetry. He has taught everything from 2nd grade to university-level courses, including high school German and Spanish, and university-level creative writing.