Cynthia Arrieu-King

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

Early life
Cynthia Arrieu-King was raised in Louisville, Kentucky.

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
 * 2021 Continuity (Octopus Books) ISBN 978-1733455114

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

Creative non-fiction
 * "Everybody Believes They are the Good Guy," in Poetry Magazine
 * "Something Beyond Interpretation, Lobster, and empire," in Bomb Magazine
 * "Saga," American Poetry Review


 * The Betweens (Noemi Press) ISBN 978-1934819951

Short fiction


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