Roger Craik

Associate Professor of English, Kent State University Ashtabula, OH


Roger Craik is an Associate Professor of English at Kent State University Ashtabula, has written three full-length poetry books – I Simply Stared (2002), Rhinoceros in Clumber Park (2003) and The Darkening Green (2004), and his poetry has appeared in several national poetry journals, including “The Formalist,” “The Literary Review,” and, most recently, “Fulcrum.”

English by birth and educated at the universities of Reading and Southampton, Craik has worked as a journalist, TV critic and chess columnist. Before coming to the USA in 1991, he worked in Turkish universities and was awarded a Beineke Fellowship to Yale in 1990. He is widely traveled, having visited North Yemen, Egypt, Tibet, Nepal, Japan, and, most recently, Bulgaria, where he will teach during spring 2007 on a Fulbright Scholarship.

Poetry is his passion: he writes for at least an hour, over coffee, each morning before breakfast, and he enjoys watching the birds during all the seasons.

Contact Information: Roger Craik, KSU Ashtabula, 3325 W. 13th Street,
Ashtabula, OH 44004, Telephone: (440) 964 6672

Contact Roger Craik at: rcraik@kent.edu