Mark Tardi

Poet

Lodz, LO
Poland
Lodzkie PL
Email: 
mark.tardi@gmail.com
Website: 
marktardi.com

Author's Bio

Mark Tardi’s books include The Circus of Trust, Airport music, and Euclid Shudders. Prologue, an award-winning cinepoem collaboration with Polish multimedia artist Adam Mańkowski, has been screened at film festivals throughout Europe and the United States. He was a writer-in-residence at MASS MoCA in January 2020 and his translations of The Squatters’ Gift by Robert Rybicki (Dalkey Archive) and Faith in Strangers by Katarzyna Szaulińska (Toad Press/Veliz Books) were published in 2021. He is a 2022 recipient of a fellowship in Literary Translation from the National Endowment for the Arts. A former Fulbright scholar, he is on faculty at the University of Łódź.

Education: 
Brown University MFA
Writers Retreats: 
Djerassi Resident Artists Program
Millay Arts
Vermont Studio Center

Publications & Prizes

Books:
The Circus of Trust (Dalkey Archive Press, 2017)
,
Airport music (Burning Deck Press, 2013)
,
Euclid Shudders (Litmus Press, 2004)
Prizes won: 

National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Literary Translation, 2022

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Personal Favorites

What I'm reading now: 
Her Wilderness Will Be Her Manners by Sarah Mangold, The Nick of Time by Rosmarie Waldrop, Address by Elizabeth Willis, Life in a Country Album by Nathalie Handal, Little Elegies for Sister Satan by Michael Palmer, DMZ Colony by Don Mee Choi

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
American
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
IN
Indiana
Raised in: 
Chicago, IL
Illinois
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Last update: Mar 27, 2022