# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-siken
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:33:36.758Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-siken"
name: "Richard Siken"
slug: "richard-siken"
description: "Richard Siken is an American poet, painter, and filmmaker. His first poetry collection, Crush (2005), was selected by Louise Glück as the winner of the 2004 Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition and went on to win a Lambda Literary Award and a Thom Gunn Award. It was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award."
tagline: "American poet"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Richard_Siken_by_David_Shankbone.jpg?width=1200"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1967-02-15"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.43
  momentum:             0.5320974939924477
  historical:           5.577114666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/richardsiken"
    handle:    "richardsiken"
sources:
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Siken"
    title: "Richard Siken"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%86"
    title: "ريتشارد سيكن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Siken"
    title: "Richard Siken"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D1%96%D1%87%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4_%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BA%D0%B5%D0%BD"
    title: "Річард Сайкен"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Siken"
    title: "Richard Siken"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Siken"
    title: "Richard Siken"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3911836"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump