Michael Bazzett

Michael Bazzett is the author of The Echo Chamber (Milkweed Editions, 2021); The Interrogation (Milkweed Editions, 2017); and You Must Remember This (Milkweed Editions, 2014), winner of a Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry. He has also published poetry chapbooks, including They: A Field Guide (Factory Hollow, 2024), selected for the Tomaž Šalamun Prize; and The Temple (Bull City Press, 2020), an Editors’ Selection for a Frost Place Prize. His work has been published in Ploughshares, The Nation, Granta, Guernica, American Poetry Review,Copper Nickel, The Sun, and The Paris Review.

His verse translation of the Mayan creation epic The Popol Vuh (Milkweed Editions, 2018) was longlisted for the 2019 National Translation Awards and named one of the best books of poetry in 2018 by The New York Times. His translations of Humberto Ak’abal’s poetry include If Today Were Tomorrow (Milkweed Editions, 2024) and selections published in Modern Poetry in Translation, Latin American Literature Today, Poetry Northwest, and The Common.

Bazzett is a 2017 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellow as well as the winner of the 2008 Bechtel Prize from Teachers & Writers Collaborative. He lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he teaches high school English at The Blake School.