Cynthia Arrieu-King

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

Early life

Cynthia Arrieu-King was raised in Louisville, KY.

Career

Cynthia Arrieu-King is the author of three collections of poetry, People are Tiny in Paintings of China (2010); Manifest (2013); and Futureless Languages (2018). She also co-wrote a chapbook with Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis By a Year Lousy with Meteors (2012) and a book-length collaborative volume of poetry with the late Hillary Gravendyk, Unlikely Conditions (2016).

Arrieu-King edited the anthology-length Asian Anglophone issue of dusie.

Cynthia Arrieu-King works as an associate professor of creative writing at Stockton University.

Awards and honors

Manifest won the 2013 Gatewood Prize selected by Harryette Mullen.

Works

Poetry

• 2006 The Small Anything City (Dream Horse Press) (chapbook) ISBN not available

• 2010 People are Tiny in Paintings of China (Octopus Books) ISBN 978-0980193855

• 2013 Manifest (Switchback Books) ISBN 978-0978617288

• 2018 Futureless Languages (Radiator Press) ISBN 978-1732814509

Collaborations

• 2016 By Some Miracle a Year Lousy with Meteors with Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis (Dream Horse Press) ISBN 978-1935716235
• 2017 Unlikely Conditions with Hillary Gravendyk (1913 Press) ISBN 978-0990633242

Poems

• "Everybody Believes They are the Good Guy," in Poetry Magazine

• "Something Beyond Interpretation, Lobster, and empire," in Bomb Magazine
• "Amazon Prime," in TriQuarterly

Short Fiction

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