Fred Ferraris is a poet, writer, and filmmaker. His recent work has been published in, among many others, Broken Bridge Review, The Café Irreal, Caveat Lector, Cold Mountain Review, Mad Blood, Marginalia, Orbis, Poetrybay, and The Worcester Review. He is the author of two chapbooks, Marpa Point (Blackberry Books, 1976) and The Durango Chronicles, Book One (Blue Marmot Press, 2004), and a full-length book, Older Than Rain: Early & Recent Poems (Selva Editions, 1997). His book length manuscript, Loose Canons, was a finalist in the 2003 National Poetry Series.
His film collaboration, Even the Door Must Open, won the ‘Award for Cinema Poetics’ at the 2005 Nolita Film Festival. He was nominated for a 2006 Pushcart Prize. He won the 2008 Mark Fischer prize for poetry.