Jennifer Grotz

Bio: Jennifer Grotz is the author of four books of poetry, most recently Still Falling. Also a translator from French and Polish, her co-translations with Piotr Sommer of Jerzy Ficowski's Everything I Don't Know received the PEN Award for Best Book of Poetry in Translation in 2022. Her poems have appeared in five volumes of the annual Best American Poetry series and have been published in venues such as The New Yorker, The Nation, Poetry, New York Times Magazine, and The New York Review of Books. In addition to teaching at the University of Rochester, she directs the Bread Loaf Writers' Conferences. In 2015, she translated Rochester Knockings, a novel by Hubert Haddad that explores the life and times of the Fox Sisters and the birth of American spiritualism. She is also the translator of The Psalms of All My Days, poems of Patrice de La Tour du Pin.

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