Jennifer Grotz

Life Grotz grew up in small Texas towns but has lived in France and Poland, all of which inform her poems. She graduated from Lubbock High School. She holds degrees from Tulane University (BA), Indiana University Bloomington (MA and MFA) in 1996, and the University of Houston (PhD). She also studied literature at the University of Paris (Sorbonne). She was a 2020 James Merrill House Fellow in Stonington, CT.

Her poems, translations, and reviews have appeared in many literary journals and magazines, and her work has been included in Best American Poetry. She is the first woman to direct the Bread Loaf Writers' Conferences. 2016: National Endowment for the Arts, Literary Translation Fellowship 2017: John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship 2022: PEN America Award for Poetry in Translation (with Piotr Sommer), for their translation of Everything I Don't Know, Jerzy Ficowski

Works Not Body, limited-edition letterpress poetry chapbook (Urban Editions, 2001) Cusp, poems (Houghton Mifflin/Mariner Books, 2003) The Needle, poems (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011) Psalms of All My Days, Patrice de La Tour du Pin, translated from the French (Carnegie Mellon UP, 2013)

Rochester Knockings, Hubert Haddad, translated from the French (Open Letter, 2015) Window Left Open (Graywolf Press, 2016) Everything I Don't Know, Jerzy Ficowski, translated from the Polish with Piotr Sommer (World Poetry 2021)