Originally from San Francisco, California, Benjamin Gucciardi is the author of Arguments (Persea Books, 2026), winner of the Lexi Rudnitsky Editor’s Choice Award and West Portal (University of Utah Press, 2021), selected by Gabrielle Calvocoressi for the Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry, and named a finalist for the Northern California Book Award and the Julie Suk Award. He is also the author of the chapbooks Timeless Tips for Simple Sabotage (Quarterly West, 2021), winner of the 2020 Quarterly West Chapbook contest, and I Ask My Sister’s Ghost (DIAGRAM/New Michigan Press, 2020).
His poems appear in AGNI, American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, and POETRY. Recent work has been featured by Poetry Daily and On Being’s Poetry Unbound. He has received the James Dickey Poetry Prize from Five Points, the Booth Prize for Unexpected Literature and the Milton Kessler Memorial Prize from Harpur Palate. Support for his work includes fellowships and residencies from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Jentel Foundation, PLAYA, and Artsmith.
He founded Soccer Without Borders in 2006 and continues to work with refugee and immigrant youth through soccer, education, and community-building.