Born and raised in Nashville, Tennessee, and educated at Dartmouth College and Columbia University, Arne Weingart lives in Chicago with his wife Karen, where he is the principal of a graphic design firm specializing in identity and wayfinding. Journal publications include Arts & Letters, Beecher’s Magazine, Coal Hill Review, Enizagam, Mayday Magazine, Mudfish, New Millennium Writings, Nimrod, Oberon, Passager, Plume, Poetry Daily, RHINO, Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, the Georgetown Review, the Paterson Literary Review, the Massachusetts Review, the Moth, Solstice, the Southeast Review, the Southern Poetry Review, Southword, and the Spoon River Poetry Review.

Anthologized poems are included in “…and love…” (Jacar Press), “Border Lines, Poems of Migration” ( Knopf), and “Poets Meet Politics” (Hungry Hill Writing).

Recent work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and he was named winner of the 2019 Robert Frost Foundation Poetry Competition. He is also winner of the Moth’s 2021 Nature Writing Prize, judged by Helen Macdonald (https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/arne-weingart-wins-moth-nature-writing-prize-mccartney-wins-waterstones-prize-1.4744903?fbclid=IwAR2pvrHDQvY8vyHPLAjMI_5-aCwLkPam9xlGMRlA2YdtbeGtsoCj68NA_8M).

Published collections are Levitation for Agnostics, winner of the 2014 New American Press Poetry Prize, Unpractical Thinking, winner of the 2020 Red Mountain Press Poetry Prize, and Concentration (FutureCycle Press).