Jennifer Grotz

Jennifer Grotz
Jennifer Grotz
Born	(1971-07-11) July 11, 1971 (age 54) Canyon, Texas
Occupation	Poet Translator Professor Literary Critic
Nationality	American
Genre	Poetry

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. ^[1] In 2017 she was named the seventh director of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. ^[2]

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. ^[2]

She currently lives in Rochester, New York.

Awards

• 2022: PEN America Award for Poetry in Translation (with Piotr Sommer), for their translation of Everything I Don't Know, Jerzy Ficowski ^[3]
• 2017: John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship ^[4]
• 2016: National Endowment for the Arts, Literary Translation Fellowship ^[5]
• 2013: C.P. Cavafy Poetry Prize, Poetry International ^[6]
• 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
• 2005: Inprint/James Michener Fellowship from the University of Houston
• 2004: Texas Institute of Arts and Letters: Natalie Ornish Poetry Prize for Best First Book
• 2004: Individual Artist Grant from the Cultural Arts Council of Houston
• 2003: American Translators Association, Student Translation Award
• 2002: Katherine Bakeless Nason Poetry Prize
• 2002: Prague Summer Program Fellowship in Poetry
• 2001: Individual Artist Fellowship from the Oregon Arts Commission
• 1997: Fellowship in Poetry from Literary Arts, Inc.

Works

• Everything I Don't Know, Jerzy Ficowski, translated from the Polish with Piotr Sommer (World Poetry 2021) ^[7]
• Window Left Open (Graywolf Press, 2016)
• Rochester Knockings, Hubert Haddad, translated from the French (Open Letter, 2015)
• Psalms of All My Days, Patrice de La Tour du Pin, translated from the French (Carnegie Mellon UP, 2013)
• The Needle, poems (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011)
• Cusp, poems (Houghton Mifflin/Mariner Books, 2003)
• Not Body, limited-edition letterpress poetry chapbook (Urban Editions, 2001)

References

1. "Jennifer Grotz: Professor". Department of English, University of Rochester. Retrieved 12 May 2017.
2. "Middlebury Names Jennifer Grotz as Next Director of Bread Loaf Conferences". 31 May 2017. Retrieved 5 June 2017.
3. "Announcing the 2022 PEN America Literary Awards Winners". PEN America. 28 February 2022. Retrieved 24 March 2022.
4. "JENNIFER GROTZ: Current Fellow". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 12 May 2017.
5. "Professor Jennifer Grotz receives fellowship for literary translation studies". University of Rochester. 4 August 2015. Retrieved 15 May 2017.
6. "The C.P. Cavafy Poetry Prize". Poetry International. Retrieved 15 May 2017.
7. "Everything I Don't Know – World Poetry Books" . Retrieved 24 March 2022.

External links

• Rona Jaffe Foundation website Archived 2009-02-17 at the Wayback Machine
• Fellowship of Southern Writers
• Interview
• Author Website: https://www.jennifergrotz.com/