Daniel Borzutzky

Daniel Borzutzky is the author of Lake Michigan (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018), finalist for the 2019 Griffin International Poetry Prize, and The Performance of Becoming Human (Brooklyn Arts Press), recipient of the 2016 National Book Award for Poetry. His other books include In the Murmurs of the Rotten Carcass Economy (Nightboat Books, 2015), Memories of My Overdevelopment (Kenning Editions, 2015), and The Book of Interfering Bodies (Nightboat Books, 2011). His translation of Galo Ghigliotto’s Valdivia (co-im-press, 2016) received the 2017 ALTA National Translation Award. He teaches in the English and Latin American and Latino Studies departments at the University of Illinois at Chicago.