 photo by Sal Cincotta |
Adrian Matejka was born in Nuremberg, Germany and grew up in California and Indiana. He is a graduate of Indiana University and the MFA program at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. His first collection of poems, The Devil’s Garden, won the 2002 New York / New England Award from Alice James Books. His second collection, Mixology, was a winner of the 2008 National Poetry Series and was published by Penguin Books in 2009. Mixology was subsequently nominated for an NAACP Image Award. His next book, The Big Smoke, is forthcoming from Penguin in 2013. He is is the recipient of two Illinois Arts Council Literary Awards and fellowships from Cave Canem and the Lannan Foundation. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in American Poetry Review, The Best American Poetry 2010, Ploughshares, Poetry, and Prairie Schooner among other journals and anthologies. Beginning in the fall of 2012, he will be teaching at Indiana University Bloomington. |
