Andrew Zawacki | |
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| Born | May 22, 1972 |
| Occupation | Poet, critic, editor, and translator |
| Education | College of William and Mary |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford; University of St Andrews; University of Chicago |
Andrew Zawacki (born May 22, 1972) is an American poet, critic, editor, and translator. He was a 2016 Howard Foundation Fellow in Poetry.
Zawacki's first book, By Reason of Breakings, won the 2001 University of Georgia Contemporary Poetry Series, chosen by Forrest Gander.[1]
Work from his second book, Anabranch, was awarded the 2002 Cecil Hemley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. The volume also includes his 2001 chapbook Masquerade, selected by C.D. Wright to receive the 2002 Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award.[2]
"Georgia", a long poem opening Zawacki's third book, Petals of Zero Petals of One, won the 1913 Prize and was published in 1913: a journal of forms, with short introductions by Peter Gizzi and Cole Swensen.
He has held fellowships from the Collège International des Traducteurs Littéraires and the Résidence internationale Ville de Paris / Institut Français aux Récollets in France, the Bogliasco Foundation] in Italy, Hawthornden Castle in Scotland, Le Château de Lavigny in Switzerland, the Salzburg Seminar in American Studies in Austria, the University of Paris IV—La Sorbonne in France, the Slovenian Writers' Association in Slovenia, the Millay Colony, the Saltonstall Colony, and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference.
Zawacki coedited the international literary magazine Verse with Brian Henry from 1995 through 2019. A Distinguished Research Professor of English, Zawacki has taught at the University of Georgia since 2005.