Jennifer Grotz
Jennifer Grotz (born 1971) is an American poet and translator who teaches English, creative writing, and literary translation at the University of Rochester, where she is Professor of English. In 2017 she was named the seventh director of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference.
Jennifer Grotz
- Name
- Jennifer Grotz
- Born
- July 11, 1971
- Birthplace
- Canyon, Texas
- Occupation
- Poet Translator Professor Literary Critic
- Nationality
- United States
- Education
- University of Paris · Tulane University · Indiana University · University of Houston
- Honours
- Guggenheim Fellowship · PEN Award for Poetry in Translation
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• Name — Jennifer Grotz • Born — July 11, 1971 • Birthplace — Canyon, Texas • Occupation — Poet Translator Professor Literary Critic • Genre — Poetry
Life
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. She currently lives in Rochester, New York.
Works
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)
Awards
• 1997: Fellowship in Poetry from Literary Arts, Inc. • 2001: Individual Artist Fellowship from the Oregon Arts Commission • 2002: Prague Summer Program Fellowship in Poetry • 2002: Katherine Bakeless Nason Poetry Prize • 2003: American Translators Association, Student Translation Award • 2004: Individual Artist Grant from the Cultural Arts Council of Houston • 2004: Texas Institute of Arts and Letters: Natalie Ornish Poetry Prize for Best First Book • 2005: Inprint/James Michener Fellowship from the University of Houston • 2007: Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award • 2007: Camargo Fellowship, Cassis, France • 2007: Fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center • 2007: New Writing Award from the Fellowship of Southern Writers • 2013: C.P. Cavafy Poetry Prize, Poetry International • 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
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- 1.Jennifer Grotz: Professor. Department of English, University of Rochester.
- 2.Middlebury Names Jennifer Grotz as Next Director of Bread Loaf Conferences. 31 May 2017.
- 3.The C.P. Cavafy Poetry Prize. Poetry International.
- 4.Professor Jennifer Grotz receives fellowship for literary translation studies. University of Rochester. 4 August 2015.
- 5.JENNIFER GROTZ: Current Fellow. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
- 6.Announcing the 2022 PEN America Literary Awards Winners. PEN America. 28 February 2022.
- 7.Everything I Don't Know – World Poetry Books.
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