Zawacki Andrew / U.S.A.

Andrew Zawacki is the author of three poetry books: Petals of Zero Petals of One (Talisman House), Anabranch (Wesleyan), and By Reason of Breakings (Georgia). His latest, Videotape, is due from Counterpath in 2013. His work has appeared in Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century (Sarabande), Walt Whitman hom(m)age, 2005/1855 (Turtle Point), The Iowa Anthology of New American Poetries (Iowa), Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the Present (Scribner), and other anthologies, as well as in magazines such as The New Yorker, The Nation, and The New Republic. He has a pair of books in France: Par Raison de brisants, translated by Antoine Cazé (Éditions Grèges, 2011), and Georgia, translated by Sika Fakambi (Éditions de l'Attente, 2009). Petit carnet de Bartleby, translated by Sika Fakambi, is forthcoming from Attente this summer. Coeditor of Verse and of The Verse Book of Interviews (Verse), Zawacki is a former fellow of the Slovenian Writers’ Association. He edited Afterwards: Slovenian Writing 1945-1995 (White Pine) and edited and co-translated Aleš Debeljak’s new and selected poems, Without Anesthesia (Persea). His translation, from the French, of Sébastien Smirou, My Lorenzo, is forthcoming from Burning Deck. He teaches at the University of Georgia, where he is Director of the Creative Writing Program.