Daniel Borzutzky is a poet and 
Spanish-language translator 
from Chicago.



His books include:

The Murmuring Grief of the Americas (Coffee House, 2024) – Chicago Review of Books Award for Poetry, 2024.

Written After a Massacre in the Year 2018  (Coffee House, 2021)

Lake Michigan (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018) – Finalist for the Griffin International Poetry Prize

The Performance of Becoming Human (Brooklyn Arts Press, 2016)- Winner of the National Book Award

Memories of my Overdevelopment (Kenning Editions, 2015)

In the Murmurs of the Rotten Carcass Economy (Nightboat, 2015)

The Book of Interfering Bodies (Nightboat, 2011)

His translations from Spanish include:

The Deer Book by Cecilia Vicuña (Radius Books, 2024)

The Loose Pearl by Paula Ilabaca Nuñez (Coimpress, 2022) – PEN Award for Poetry in Translation

Valdivia by Galo Ghigliotto (Coimpress, 2017) – National Translation Award from ALTA (American Literary Translators Association)

The Country of Planks by Raúl Zurita (Action Books, 2015)

Song for his Disappeared Love by Raúl Zurita (Action Books, 2010)

Port Trakl by Jaime Luis Huenún (Action Books, 2007)






He teaches English and Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago.