Rick Barot (born February 19, 1969) is an American poet and educator.
[1] Barot was born in the Philippines, grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, and attended Wesleyan University and the Iowa Writers Workshop.
[2] He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Artist Trust of Washington, the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, and Stanford University, where he was a Stegner Fellow and a Jones Lecturer in Poetry.
He lives in Tacoma, Washington, and teaches at Pacific Lutheran University.
He previously taught at the low-residency MFA at Warren Wilson College.