Jennifer Grotz

Jennifer Grotz received her BA in French, English, and Art History from Tulane University, her MA in English and MFA in Poetry from Indiana University, and her PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Houston. Still Falling, her fourth collection of poems, appeared from Graywolf Press in 2023. She is also the author of Window Left Open; The Needle, winner of the Helen C. Smith Best Book of Poetry from the Texas Institute of Letters and the Nassar Prize; and Cusp, winner of the Bakeless Prize for Poetry and the Natalie Ornish Prize from the Texas Institute of Letters, both published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; as well as the limited edition letterpress chapbook Not Body, available from Urban Editions. Psalms of All My Days, her translations from the French of Patrice de La Tour du Pin, appeared from Carnegie Mellon University Press in 2013. The novel Rochester Knockings, translated from the French of Hubert Haddad, appeared in 2015 from Open Letter. And Everything I Don’t Know, the selected poems of Jerzy Ficowski, is co-translated from the Polish with Piotr Sommer and appeared in 2021 from World Poetry Books and received the PEN Foundation Best Book of Poetry in Translation Award. Her poems and translations have appeared widely in journals and anthologies such as The New Yorker, New York Review of Books, American Poetry Review, New England Review, Ploughshares, TriQuarterly, and in five volumes of Best American Poetry.  Her essays and reviews have appeared in The Nation, Boston Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Gulf Coast, and The Washington Post. She has received awards from the Fellowship of Southern Writers, the Camargo Foundation, the Rona Jaffe Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation. She teaches at the University of Rochester is director of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conferences.