Piotr Gwiazda

Poet

Pittsburgh, PA

Pennsylvania US

Email:

pkg12@pitt.edu

Website:

piotrgwiazda.net

Author's Bio

Piotr Gwiazda was born in Poland and moved to the United States at the age of eighteen. He is the author of three books of poetry, Aspects of Strangers (Moria Books, 2015), Messages: Poems & Interview (Pond Road Press, 2012), and Gagarin Street (Washington Writers’ Publishing House, 2005). He has also published two critical studies, U.S. Poetry in the Age of Empire (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) and James Merrill and W.H. Auden (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), and three volumes of translation from Polish, Dear Beloved Humans (Diálogos Books, 2023), Zero Visibility (Phoneme Media/Deep Vellum, 2017), and Kopenhaga (Zephyr Press, 2013) by Grzegorz Wróblewski. Gwiazda is a Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh.

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:

Bigger Than They Appear: Anthology of Very Short Poems (Accents Publishing, 2011)

Poems Against War: Bending Toward Justice (Wasteland Press, 2010)

Poetic Voices Without Borders 2 (Gival Press, 2009)

The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel (No Tell Books, 2009)

Poetic Voices Without Borders (Gival Press, 2005)

Books:

Aspects of Strangers (Moria Books, 2015)

Messages: Poems & Interview (Pond Road Press, 2013)

Gagarin Street (Washington Writers' Publishing House, 2005)

Journals:

Antioch Review

B O D Y

Baltimore Review

Barrow Street

Barzakh

Beltway Poetry Quarterly

Broadsided Press

Columbia Journal

Confrontation

Connecticut Review

Cordite Poetry Review

Diagram

Diode

Drunken Boat

Esque

Exquisite Corpse

Gargoyle Magazine

Hanging Loose

Hotel Amerika

Laurel Review

Linebreak

Link

Mantis: A Journal of Poetry, Criticism & Translation

Margie

Moria

Mount Hope

Mudlark

No Tell Motel

Ostrich Review

Otoliths

Oxford Magazine

P-QUEUE

Parcel

Past Simple

Shampoo

Sprung Formal

Swink

Talisman

The Seattle Review

The Tiny

Vallum

Washington Square Review

Prizes won:

Writer in Residence, Baltic Centre for Writers and Translators, Visby, Sweden (2016); Translation Fund, PEN American Center (2010); Writer in Residence, James Merrill House, Stonington, CT (2008); Washington Writers' Publishing House Book Contest (2005)