Daniel Borzutzky

Daniel Borzutzky is a poet and translator living in Chicago. His books of poetry include The Murmuring Grief of the Americas (Coffee House Press, 2024); Written After a Massacre in the Year 2018 (Coffee House Press, 2021); Lake Michigan (University of Pittsburgh, 2018), which was a finalist for a Griffin Poetry Prize; The Performance of Becoming Human (Brooklyn Arts Press, 2016), which won a National Book Award for Poetry; In the Murmurs of the Rotten Carcass Economy (Nightboat, 2015); and The Book of Interfering Bodies (Nightboat, 2011). 

His translations from Spanish include Deer Book by Cecilia Vicuña (Radius Books, 2024); The Loose Pearl by Paula Ilabaca Nuñez (co-im-press, 2022), which won a PEN Award for Poetry in Translation; Valdivia by Galo Ghigliotto (co-im-press, 2017), which was a winner of the American Literary Translation Association’s National Translation Award; The Country of Planks by Raúl Zurita (Action Books, 2015); Song for His Disappeared Love by Raúl Zurita (Action Books, 2010); and Port Trakl by Jaime Luis Huenún (Action Books, 2008). 

He teaches in the English and Latin American and Latino Studies departments at the University of Illinois Chicago.