Srikanth Reddy (born 1973) is an Indian American writer, scholar, and author of three full-length volumes of poetry.

[5] He earned his BA and his PhD from Harvard, and his MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop.

He is currently Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Chicago.

[6][7] His poetry has been published in Jacket,[8] Poetry Northwest,[9] Harper's,[10] and The Guardian,[11] and his literary criticism has appeared in the New York Times, Lana Turner, Raritan, PEN America, and other publications.

[12] In October 2021 Reddy was announced as the editor of Phoenix Poets, a book series published by the University of Chicago Press,[13] and in December 2022 he assumed the role of poetry editor for The Paris Review.