Background
Arnold grew up in the United States, Europe and Asia.
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Craig Arnold
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He received his Bachelor of Arts in English from Yale University in 1990 and his Doctor of Philosophy in creative writing from the University of Utah in 2001.
Career
Arnold taught poetry at the University of Wyoming. His poems have appeared in anthologies including The Best American Poetry 1998 and The Bread Loaf Anthology of New American Poets, and in literary journals including Poetry, The Paris Review, Denver Quarterly, Barrow Street, New Republic and Yale Review. On April 27, 2009, Arnold went missing on the small volcanic island of Kuchinoerabujima, Japan.
He went for a solo hike to explore an active volcano on the island and never returned to the inn where he was staying.
While Japanese law mandates government-backed searches for three days, on April 30, 2009, the Japanese government agreed to extend the search an additional three days. Arnold was not found, and the search was then picked up by the international non-governmental organization 1st Special Response Group.
Craig Arnold"s trail was found near a high cliff, and he was presumed to have died from a fatal fall near the date of his disappearance. A detailed account of Craig"s last few days and the extensive search, entitled An Exchange for Fire, was written by Christopher Blasdel and appeared in the anthology My Postwar Life: New Writings from Japan and Okinawa, published by Chicago Quarterly Review Books, January, 2012.
2009 — United States-Japan Creative Artists Program.
Achievements
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2009 — United States-Japan Creative Artists Program 2008 — Fulbright Fellowship 2005 — Rome Prize in Literature, American Academy of Arts and Letters 2001 — Alfred Hodder Fellowship in the Humanities, Princeton University 2001 — Dobie Paisano Fellow 1999 — John Atherton Fellowship in Poetry from the Bread Loaf Writers Conference 1999 — Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award 1998 — National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship 1998 — Utah Arts Council Original Writing Award for a book in poetry 1998 — National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship 1996 — Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship.
Membership
He was also a musician, and performed as a member of the band Iris.:).
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Nationality
United States