Cynthia Arrieu-King is an American poet with Chinese heritage.
Cynthia Arrieu-King was raised in Louisville, Kentucky.
Cynthia Arrieu-King is the author of four collections of poetry, People are Tiny in Paintings of China (2010); Manifest (2013); Futureless Languages (2018) and Continuity (2021). She also co-wrote a chapbook with Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis titled 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 a professor of creative writing at Stockton University. Through the campus radio station 91.7 WLFR, she produced the show The Last Word from 2011 to 2013, and rebooted it from 2022 to the end of 2024: Episodes can be found on Spotify.
Manifest won the 2013 Gatewood Prize selected by Harryette Mullen. By Some Miracle a Year Lousy with Meteors won the 2011 Dream Horse Press Chapbook Prize. Arrieu-King has also received a Kundiman Fellowship.
Poetry
Collaborations
Poems
Creative non-fiction
Short fiction