Steven Riel
Poet

About

photo by Michael Zide 1992

Steven Riel grew up in Monson, Massachusetts and he graduated from Wilbraham & Monson Academy, Georgetown University (A.B., 1981), and Simmons College (M.S.L.S., 1987).

His first book of poetry, How to Dream, was published by Amherst Writers & Artists Press in 1992 with the help of a grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. His second book, The Spirit Can Crest, was published in 2003.

Steven served as poetry editor of RFD Magazine from 1987 to 1995 and was recently selected as the 2005 Robert Fraser Distinguished Visiting Poet at Bucks County Community College. He is currently enrolled in the MFA in Poetry Program at New England College, which has awarded him a Joel Oppenheimer Scholarship.

He works as Head of HCL/FAS Cataloging Support Services in the Harvard College Library's Technical Services department.