Randall R. Freisinger's poems have been printed in many literary magazines, including Tendril, New Letters, Stone Country, Cottonwood, Mississippi Valley Review, The Laurel Review, The Chariton Review, Kansas Quarterly, Passages North, Interim, The Milkweed Chronicle, Mickle Street Review, The Nebraska Review, Poet & Critic, The South Coast Poetry Journal, Hiram Poetry Review, Great River Review, Zone 3, The Cream City Review, Tar River Poetry, The Atlanta Review, Green Mountains Review, The North Coast Review, andThe Marboro Review.

Nominated four times for Pushcart Prizes, his work has been included in the 1984, 1985, and 1997 editions of Anthology of Magazine Verse & Yearbook of American Poetry (Monitor Books), in the Passages North Anthology (Milkweed Editions, 1990) and in Inheriting the Land: Contemporary Voices from the Midwest (University of Minnesota Press, 1993).
Recent poems are forthcoming in The South Carolina Review. He has published two chapbooks. Running Patterns won the 1985 Flume Press National Chapbook Competition (David Wojahn, judge). Hand Shadows was published in 1988 by GreenTower Press (Editor, William Trowbridge). His recently completed book-length manuscript, Plato’s Breath, won the 1996 May Swenson Poetry Award and was published by Utah State University Press in early summer of 1997.

He was born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri, and educated at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He now lives with his wife and two sons in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, where he is Professor of Rhetoric, Literature, and Creative Writing in the Department of Humanities at Michigan Technological University. He serves as Associate Editor for The Laurel Review.