Daniel Borzutzky

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Daniel Borzutzky is the author of six poetry collections, most recently Written After a Massacre in the Year 2018 (Coffee House Press, 2021); Lake Michigan (Pitt Poetry Series, 2018), a finalist for the Griffin International Poetry Prize; and The Performance of Becoming Human (Brooklyn Arts Press, 2016), which won the National Book Award. He has translated collections by Raúl Zurita, Jaime Luis Huenún, and Galo Ghigliotto. His translation of Ghigliotto’s Valdivia won the National Translation Award. He lives in Chicago. (updated 10/2021)
Borzutzky’s The Performance of Becoming Human, Lake Michigan, and Written after a Massacre in the Year 2018 were reviewed in AGNI Online by Éric Morales-Franceschini.