Daniel Borzutzky

Daniel Borzutzky is a poet and Spanish-language translator from Chicago. His most recent books of poetry are The Murmuring Grief of the Americas (2024), and Written After a Massacre in the Year 2018 (2021). His 2016 collection, The Performance of Becoming Human, received the National Book Award. Lake Michigan (2018) was a finalist for the Griffin International Poetry Prize. His most recent translations are Cecilia Vicuña’s The Deer Book (2024); and Paula Ilabaca Nuñez’s The Loose Pearl (2022), winner of the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation. His translation of Galo Ghigliotto’s Valdivia received the American Literary Translator’s Association’s 2017 National Translation Award, and he has also translated collections by Raúl Zurita, and Jaime Luis Huenún. Daniel’s next poetry collection, Blank Book Pain Blank, is forthcoming with Coffee House Press in 2027. Most recently, Daniel’s fiction has appeared and is forthcoming in Zyzzyva, McSweeney’s, and VQR.