“One of his generation’s brightest lights.”
ABOUT OLIVER
Oliver Baez Bendorf’s new collection of poems, Consider the Rooster, will be published by Nightboat Books in September 2024. He is the author of two previous poetry books: Advantages of Being Evergreen (Cleveland State University Poetry Center 2019) and The Spectral Wilderness (Kent State U.P., 2015), and a chapbook The Gospel According to X (Seven Kitchens Press), selected for the Rane Arroyo Chapbook Series. He has received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, a Publishing Triangle Award, and fellowships from CantoMundo, Vermont Studio Center, and the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. His poems have been published in American Poetry Review, BOMB, Denver Quarterly, The Nation, Orion, POETRY Magazine, and elsewhere, and anthologized in Best American Poetry, Library of America’s Latino Poetry: A New Anthology, and Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics. For more than a decade, he has taught poetry writing to people of all ages at a variety of institutions including University of Wisconsin-Madison, Kalamazoo College, 826DC, The Queens Center for Gay Seniors, Madison Public Library, Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Workshop, and the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. Born and raised in Iowa City, Iowa, he now lives on the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains, in Colorado.
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Oliver Baez Bendorf is the author of Consider the Rooster, forthcoming from Nightboat Books in September 2024, and two previous collections of poems: Advantages of Being Evergreen (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2019) and The Spectral Wilderness (Kent State U.P., 2015). He has received fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Publishing Triangle, CantoMundo, Vermont Studio Center, and the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. Born and raised in Iowa, he now lives in Colorado.