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Personal profile
About
Matthew Zapruder is the author of six collections of poetry, most recently I Love Hearing Your Dreams, forthcoming from Scribner in September 2024, as well as two books of prose: Why Poetry (Ecco, 2017) and Story of a Poem (Unnamed, 2023). He is editor at large at Wave Books, where he edits contemporary poetry, prose, and translations. From 2016-7 he held the annually rotating position of Editor of the Poetry Column for the New York Times Magazine, and was the Editor of Best American Poetry 2022. He teaches in the MFA in Creative Writing at Saint Mary’s College of California.
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Education/Academic qualification
M.F.A. in Poetry, University of Massachusetts Amherst
… → 1999
M.A. in Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of California - Berkeley
… → 1994
B.A. in Russian Literature, Amherst College
… → 1989
External positions
Editor, Poetry Page, New York Times Magazine
Mar 1 2016 → Mar 1 2017
Palm Desert Low Residency MFA, Assistant Adjunct Professor, University of California, Riverside
Aug 1 2008 → …
Permanent Graduate Faculty, MFA in Creative Writing, The New School
Jan 1 2005 → Jan 1 2009
Editor-at-Large, Wave Books
Jan 1 2005 → …
Co-curator, KGB Monday Night Poetry Reading Series
Jan 1 2004 → Jan 1 2008
Founder and Publisher, Verse Press
Jan 1 1999 → Jan 1 2005
Visiting Professor, MFA Creative Writing, New York University
… → Mar 1 2008
Holloway Lecturer in the Practice of Poetry, University of California - Berkeley
… → Aug 1 2010
Visiting Professor, MFA, University of Houston
… → Sep 1 2018
Disciplines
- English Language and Literature
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Four Poems and Two Translations
Zapruder, M., 2023, In: Jung Journal: Culture and Psyche. 17, 4, p. 122-136 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
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Copper Canyon Press: Father's Day
Zapruder, M., Sep 1 2019, Copper Canyon Press.Research output: Book/Report › Book
Prizes
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2002 Tupelo Press Editors' Prize
Zapruder, M. (Recipient), 2002
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2003 James Merrill Writer in Residence, Stonington, CT.
Zapruder, M. (Recipient), 2003
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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2005 Artist in Residence, California Institute of the Arts
Zapruder, M. (Recipient), 2005
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2007 Lannan Foundation Writer in Residence, Marfa, Texas
Zapruder, M. (Recipient), 2007
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2007 William Carlos Williams Award, Poetry Society of America
Zapruder, M. (Recipient), 2007
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)