W.F. Lantry, a native of San Diego, received his Licence and Maîtrise from L’Université de Nice, M.A. in English from Boston University, and holds a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Houston. He is the recipient of the Paris/Atlantic Young Writers Award, and in 2010 won the Lindberg Foundation International Poetry for Peace Prize (in Israel), the Crucible Poetry Prize, the CutBank Patricia Goedicke Prize and the National Hackney Literary Award in Poetry. In 2011 the Atlanta Review awarded him its International Publication Prize. His recent work has appeared online and in print in eighteen different countries, in journals as diverse as Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, Valparaiso Fiction Review, Istanbul Literary Review, Damazine, Voices Israel, protestpoems.org, New Verse News, Blood & Honey, Poetry Salzburg Review, Horizon, Descant, Permafrost and Aesthetica.
Lantry’s chapbook, The Language of Birds (Finishing Line Press), is a lyric retelling of Attar’s Conference of the 
Birds. He currently works in Washington, DC and is a contributing editor of Umbrella: A Journal of Poetry and Kindred Prose.
His work also appears in the Unbound Press & Spilling Ink anthology, Story.Book.
