Boyer Rickel is the author of two poetry collections, remanence (Parlor Press) and arreboles (Wesleyan), a memoir-in-essays, Taboo (Wisconsin), as well as two poetry chapbooks from Seven Kitchens Press, Musick’s Hand-maid and reliquary. Recipient of poetry fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and Arizona Commission on the Arts, he taught in the University of Arizona Creative Writing Program for twenty years.