Arthur lives in Baltimore, Maryland and is an associate professor in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University.
[2] He began his career at the University of Toronto, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in English in 1998.
"[6] Arthur's style is marked by free verse lines that incorporate rhyme and meter.
[7] The Suicide's Son (Vehicule Press, 2019) Charms Against Lightning (Copper Canyon Press, 2012) Hundred Acre Wood (Anstruther Press, 2018) Rowlock (Junction Books, 2000) Resisting Canada: An Anthology of Poems (Vehicule Press, 2019) Here: Poems for the Planet (Copper Canyon Press, 2019) The Next Wave (Palimpsest Press, 2018) Resistance, Rebellion, Life: 50 Poems Now (Knopf, 2017) The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2016 (Tightrope Books, 2016) Best New Poets 2010 (University of Virginia Press, 2010) The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2008 (Tightrope Books, 2008) "School for Boys" The Southern Review (2019) "Hundred Acre Wood" The Southern Review (2018) "Model-Train Display at Christmas in a Shopping Mall Food Court" The Southern Review (2018) "Some Thoughts on Ambiguity: Mystery, Truth, and Lies" AGNI Online (2018) Athur was the 2022 Writer in Residence at John Cabot University's Institute for Creative Writing and Literary Translation in Rome, Italy.
[12] He also received The Southern Review's James Olney Award for his poem "School for Boys".
[15] In 2016 he was the Fulbright Distinguished Scholar in Creative Writing at Queen's University in Belfast in Northern Ireland.
[16][17] Arthur received the Rubys Artist Project Grant from the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance in 2015.
[26] In the spring of 2005, Arthur was a resident fellow at La Napoule Art Foundation in France.