Matthew Zapruder is the author of five collections of poetry, most recently Father’s Day, as well as Why Poetry, and Story of a Poem. In 2000, he co-founded Verse Press, and is now editor at large at Wave Books, where he edits contemporary poetry, prose, and translations. From 2016-7 he held the annually rotating position of Editor of the Poetry Column for the New York Times Magazine, and he was the Editor of Best American Poetry 2022. He lives in Northern California and teaches in the MFA in Creative Writing at Saint Mary’s College of California. His forthcoming collection of poetry, I Love Hearing Your Dreams, was published by Scribner in September 2024.
Books in order of publication:
Full-length poetry
American Linden (Tupelo Press, 2002)
The Pajamaist (Copper Canyon Press, 2006)
Come On All You Ghosts (Copper Canyon Press, 2010)
Sun Bear (Copper Canyon Press, 2014)
Nonfiction
Why Poetry (HarperCollins, 2017)
Memoir
Story of a Poem: A Memoir (The Unnamed Press, 2023)
Translations
Secret Weapon: The Late Poems of Eugen Jebeleanu (Coffee House: 2007)
Anthologies
Legitimate dangers: American poets of the new century, Editors Michael Dumanis, Cate Marvin, Sarabande Books, 2006
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