Tucker Riggleman's writing lives in small moments. Concise, emotional, and rooted in place, his work finds inspiration in the rural landscapes and communities of his youth: the mamaw kitchens, beer joints, and endless backroads to nowhere. His work has appeared in Dinner Bell, Sky Island Journal, Pictura Journal, and Kestrel, among others. Tucker received a 2025 WV Creative Network Literary Arts Fellowship for poetry.
Books
Selected work
"Hardy County Blues"
Soon
wildscape. literary journal
"Summer of the Father's Day Flood"
Kestrel: A Journal of Literature and Art, 2026
"The Friendly City" and "Holding 'I Love You' Inside Like a Bomb"
Pictura Journal, 2026
"Tiger Lilies"
SoFloPoJo - South Florida Poetry Journal, 2026
"Veronica"
The Hemlock Journal, 2025
"The Frailty of Water"
Neutral Spaces Magazine, 2020
Multiple poems
Fluent Magazine, 2016
Multiple poems
Sincere Dalliances, 2023
"My Aunt Gave Me a Recipe for Pizza Dough"
Dinner Bell, 2020
Multiple poems
Shepherdstown Good News Paper, 2016
"The Undeniable Proof of God"
Sky Island Journal, 2020