Max Ritvo
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Max Ritvo
Photo by Ashley Woo |
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| Born |
December 19, 1990 Los Angeles, California |
| Died | August 23, 2016 (aged 25) Los Angeles, California |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater |
Yale University; Columbia University |
| Notable awards | Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship, 2014 |
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Max Ritvo (December 19, 1990 – August 23, 2016) was an American poet. Milkweed Editions posthumously published a full-length collection of his poems, Four Reincarnations, to positive critical reviews. Milkweed has announced two more books, Letters from Max (co-written with Sarah Ruhl), and a second collection of Ritvo's poems, The Final Voicemails , forthcoming in 2018.
Max Ritvo was born in Los Angeles, California, on December 19, 1990, to Riva Ariella Ritvo, a child therapist and biomedical researcher, and Edward Ritvo, a psychiatrist and researcher. He grew up with his two older sisters, Victoria and Skylre. The investor and philanthropist Alan B. Slifka was his stepfather. A graduate of Harvard-Westlake School in Los Angeles, Ritvo earned his BA in English from Yale University, where he edited a literary magazine and performed with a sketch comedy troupe, and his MFA in Poetry from Columbia University. In 2014, he was awarded a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship for his chapbook AEONS. On August 1, 2015, he married Victoria Jackson-Hanen, a Ph.D. candidate in psychology at Princeton University, in a ceremony officiated by the poet Louise Glück. He edited poetry at Parnassus: Poetry in Review and was a teaching fellow at Columbia.
Ritvo was diagnosed with Ewing's sarcoma at age 16 and died from the disease at his home in Los Angeles on August 23, 2016.
Ritvo's work has appeared in Poetry,The New Yorker,Boston Review, and as a Poem-a-day on Poets.org. He gave numerous written and radio interviews before his death.
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