{{short description|American poet (born 1978)}} {{infobox writer | name = Colin Cheney | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1978}} | birth_place = Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. | occupation = Poet | education = Brown University (BA)<br>New York University (MFA) | relatives = Ian Cheney (brother) | website = {{URL|https://www.colincheney.com}} | image = Photo-Colin-Cheney.jpg | caption = Poet Colin Cheney }} '''Colin Cheney''' (born 1978 Boston, Massachusetts) is an American poet.
His debut collection, ''Here Be Monsters'', was selected for the National Poetry Series in 2009. His work has appeared in many publications including ''American Poetry Review, Crazyhorse, Gulf Coast, Kenyon Review, Massachusetts Review, Ploughshares, Poetry Magazine.'' He is an editor of ''Tongue: A Journal of Writing & Art''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://tongueoftheworld.org/one/?page_id=100|title=Tongue – Editors|work=tongueoftheworld.org}}</ref>
He graduated from Brown University, with a BA in Environmental Studies in 2001. In 2007, he received an MFA from New York University.
He is the brother of film producer Ian Cheney.<ref>{{cite web|title=Colin Cheney: The City Dark|url=https://www.colincheney.com/the-city-dark|accessdate=April 18, 2019}}</ref>
He composed the score for the Werner Herzog-produced documentary, ''The Arc of Oblivion.''<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Arc of Oblivion movie review (2024) {{!}} Roger Ebert |url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-arc-of-oblivion-film-review-2024 |access-date=2026-02-07 |website=www.rogerebert.com |language=en-US}}</ref>
In 2024, he curated "Things We Lost in The," a multimedia art project whose "bizarre and wondrous brilliance of the hypnotic conceptual experiment" Jorge S. Arango described as "as pure an illustration of the power of narrative as you’ll likely encounter in an art show."<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-10-15 |title=Discover a quirky Vermont college that you’ll wish had really existed |url=https://www.pressherald.com/2024/10/15/after-touring-the-artifacts-from-a-quirky-vermont-college-youll-wish-it-existed/ |access-date=2026-02-07 |website=The Portland Press Herald |language=en-US}}</ref>
==Awards== *2006 Ruth Lilly Fellowships <ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.poetryfoundation.org/foundation/release_091106.html |title=Two Young Poets Win Ruth Lilly Fellowships : The Poetry Foundation |access-date=2010-05-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100807094010/http://www.poetryfoundation.org/foundation/release_091106.html |archive-date=2010-08-07 |url-status=dead }}</ref> *2009 National Poetry Series<ref>{{cite web|url=https://ugapress.blogspot.com/2009/09/colin-cheney-wins-national-poetry.html|title=News from the University of Georgia Press: Colin Cheney wins National Poetry Series competition|work=ugapress.blogspot.com|date=9 September 2009 }}</ref> *2010 Pushcart Prize for the poem "Lord God Bird"
==Works== *"Half-Ourselves & Half-Not", ''Poetry'' (September 2009)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Half-Ourselves & Half-Not |url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/52878/half-ourselves-half-not |access-date=2026-02-07 |website=The Poetry Foundation}}</ref> *"Ars Poetica with Vulture", ''Kenyon Review'' *"Hanging Garden", "Guernica: A Journal of Writing & Art" (with audio) *"Observatory", "Waccamaw: A Journal of Contemporary Literature" *"Home Lesson," ''The Missouri Review''<ref>{{Cite web |last=Rice |first=Kylan |title=The Missouri Review“Home Lesson” by Colin Cheney {{!}} The Missouri Review |url=https://missourireview.com/home-lesson-by-colin-cheney/ |access-date=2026-02-07 |language=en-US}}</ref> *''Here Be Monsters'' (The University of Georgia Press, 2010)
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==External links== *{{Official website|www.colincheney.com}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Cheney, Colin}} Category:American male poets Category:Poets from Boston Category:1978 births Category:Brown University alumni Category:Living people Category:21st-century American poets Category:21st-century American male writers