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'''Oliver Baez Bendorf''' (born June 21, 1987) is an American poet and writer.
'''Oliver Baez Bendorf''' (born 1987) is an American poet.


== Life and career ==
== Early life and education ==
Oliver Baez Bendorf was born on June 21, 1987,<ref name="loc-bendorf">{{cite web|title=Bendorf, Oliver, 1987-|url=http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2014032899.html|website=[[Library of Congress]]|access-date=June 7, 2017}}</ref> in [[Iowa City, Iowa]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.oliverbaezbendorf.com/|title=Oliver Baez Bendorf|website=Oliver Baez Bendorf|language=en-US|access-date=2019-04-02}}</ref> He received a BA from the [[University of Iowa]] in 2009. In 2013, he completed an MFA in poetry from the [[University of Wisconsin–Madison|University of Wisconsin-Madison]], where he met his teachers [[Lynda Barry]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.pw.org/content/an_interview_with_oliver_baez_bendorf|title=An Interview With Oliver Baez Bendorf {{!}} Poets & Writers|website=www.pw.org|date=6 September 2016|language=en|access-date=2017-06-07}}</ref> [[Quan Barry]], Amaud Jamaul Johnson, [[Jesse Lee Kercheval]], and [[Ronald Wallace (poet)|Ronald Wallace]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://creativewriting.wisc.edu/faculty.html|title=Graduate Creative Writing Faculty|website=creativewriting.wisc.edu|access-date=2019-11-29}}</ref> In 2015, he received an MA in Library and Information Studies, also from the University of Wisconsin-Madison,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2017/02/assembling-the-whole-an-interview-with-librarianartist-oliver-baez-bendorf/|title=Assembling the Whole: An Interview with Librarian{{!}}Artist Oliver Baez Bendorf|last=Mears|first=Jaime|date=February 22, 2017|website=The Signal|publisher=Library of Congress|access-date=2017-06-07}}</ref> where he assisted with The Little Magazine Collection, one of the most extensive of its kind in the United States.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://uwdc.library.wisc.edu/collections/littlemagint/|title=Little Magazine Interview Index – UW Digital Collections|language=en-US|access-date=2019-04-02}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://uwlittlemags.tumblr.com/post/121940336308/the-oliver-bendorf-exit-interview|title=The Oliver Bendorf Exit Interview|website=Little Magazine Collection|access-date=2019-04-02}}</ref> Bendorf is a fellow of the [[CantoMundo]] Poetry Workshop.
Oliver Baez Bendorf was born on June 21, 1987,<ref name="loc-bendorf">{{cite web|title=Bendorf, Oliver, 1987-|url=http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2014032899.html|website=[[Library of Congress]]|access-date=June 7, 2017}}</ref> in [[Iowa City, Iowa]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.oliverbaezbendorf.com/|title=Oliver Baez Bendorf|website=Oliver Baez Bendorf|language=en-US|access-date=2019-04-02}}</ref> His poems sometimes feature the landscape of his childhood,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Sahaidachny |first=Rachel |date=2016-07-12 |title=The Spectral Wilderness / Oliver Bendorf |url=https://www.southeastreview.org/single-post/2016/07/12/review-the-spectral-wilderness-oliver-bendorf |access-date=2023-02-11 |website=thesoutheastreview |language=en}}</ref> and his writing about returning to Iowa for a visit while transitioning genders was published in ''Buzzfeed''.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bendorf |first=Oliver Baez |title=After I Came Out As A Transgender Man, I Was Asked If It Felt Like I Had Died |url=https://www.buzzfeed.com/oliverbendorf/after-i-came-out-as-a-transgender-man-a-teacher-asked-if-it |access-date=2023-02-11 |website=BuzzFeed |date=21 January 2014 |language=en}}</ref> He graduated with a BA from the [[University of Iowa]] in 2009. In 2013, he earned an MFA in poetry from the [[University of Wisconsin–Madison|University of Wisconsin-Madison]], where he met his teachers [[Lynda Barry]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.pw.org/content/an_interview_with_oliver_baez_bendorf|title=An Interview With Oliver Baez Bendorf {{!}} Poets & Writers|website=www.pw.org|date=6 September 2016|language=en|access-date=2017-06-07}}</ref> [[Quan Barry]], [[Amaud Jamaul Johnson]], [[Jesse Lee Kercheval]], and [[Ronald Wallace (poet)|Ronald Wallace]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://creativewriting.wisc.edu/faculty.html|title=Graduate Creative Writing Faculty|website=creativewriting.wisc.edu|access-date=2019-11-29|archive-date=2018-07-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180727054621/https://creativewriting.wisc.edu/faculty.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 2015, he received an MA in Library and Information Studies, also from the University of Wisconsin-Madison,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2017/02/assembling-the-whole-an-interview-with-librarianartist-oliver-baez-bendorf/|title=Assembling the Whole: An Interview with Librarian{{!}}Artist Oliver Baez Bendorf|last=Mears|first=Jaime|date=February 22, 2017|website=The Signal|publisher=Library of Congress|access-date=2017-06-07}}</ref> where he worked with The Little Magazine Collection, one of the most extensive of its kind in the United States.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://uwdc.library.wisc.edu/collections/littlemagint/|title=Little Magazine Interview Index – UW Digital Collections|language=en-US|access-date=2019-04-02}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://uwlittlemags.tumblr.com/post/121940336308/the-oliver-bendorf-exit-interview|title=The Oliver Bendorf Exit Interview|website=Little Magazine Collection|access-date=2019-04-02}}</ref> Bendorf is a fellow of the [[CantoMundo]] Poetry Workshop.


== Career ==
He has taught poetry at a selection of institutions including [[University of Wisconsin–Madison|University of Wisconsin-Madison]], [[826DC]], [[Madison Public Library (Madison, Wisconsin)|Madison Public Library]], [[District of Columbia Public Schools]], [[Mount Holyoke College]], [[Wick Poetry Center]], and elsewhere.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.oliverbaezbendorf.com/|title=Teaching|date=2019-10-07|work=Oliver Baez Bendorf|access-date=2019-10-07|language=en-US}}</ref>
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Bendorf's poetry publications include the book ''The Spectral Wilderness''<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Spectral Wilderness - The Kent State University Press |url=http://www.kentstateuniversitypress.com/2014/the-spectral-wilderness/ |access-date=2017-06-08 |website=www.kentstateuniversitypress.com |language=en-US}}</ref>'','' selected by [[Mark Doty]] for the 2013 Stan & Tom Wick Poetry Prize, and released by [[Kent State University Press]] in 2015,<ref>{{Cite web |title=2013 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize Awarded to Oliver Bendorf {{!}} Kent State University |url=http://www.kent.edu/cas/news/2013-stan-and-tom-wick-poetry-prize-awarded-oliver-bendorf |access-date=2017-06-08 |website=www.kent.edu |language=en}}</ref> and ''Advantages of Being Evergreen'', which was selected for the 2018 Open Book Poetry Competition from [[Cleveland State University Poetry Center]] and published in September 2019. <ref>{{Cite web |title=2018 Book Contest Results |url=http://www.csupoetrycenter.com/news-1/2018/6/26/2018-book-contest-results |access-date=2019-04-02 |website=Cleveland State University Poetry Center |date=27 June 2018 |language=en-US}}</ref> American poet [[Gabrielle Calvocoressi]] called ''Advantages of Being Evergreen'' "an essential book for our time and for all time" and wrote that "Baez Bendorf is making a future grammar for the moment all of our vessels are free and held. I am living for the world these poems anticipate… This is a book of the earth’s abiding wonder. And the body’s unbreakable ability to bloom."<ref>{{Cite web |title=Advantages of Being Evergreen |url=http://www.csupoetrycenter.com/books/advantages-of-being-evergreen |access-date=2023-02-11 |website=Cleveland State University Poetry Center |language=en-US}}</ref>


His third book of poems, ''Consider the Rooster'', will be published by [[Nightboat Books]] in 2024.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Queers in Winter with Oliver Baez Bendorf, Michael V. Smith and Hazel Jane Plante (on Zoom) |url=https://creativewriting.ubc.ca/events/event/queers-in-winter/ |access-date=2023-02-11 |website=Creative Writing |language=en-CA}}</ref>
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His work has been featured in outlets including Academy of American Poets' ''Poem-a-Day'',<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/evergreen-0|title=Evergreen|last=Baez Bendorf|first=Oliver|date=2017-12-18|website=Evergreen|language=en|access-date=2018-04-17}}</ref> ''American Poetry Review'',<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://aprweb.org/poems/river-i-dream-about|title=American Poetry Review - Oliver Baez Bendorf - "River I Dream About"|website=American Poetry Review|language=en|access-date=2019-04-02}}</ref> ''BOMB,''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://shop.bombmagazine.org/products/bomb-147-fall-2020|title=BOMB 147 / Spring 2019|website=shop.bombmagazine.org|language=en|access-date=2019-04-02}}</ref> ''Black Warrior Review'',<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://bwr.ua.edu/ritual-by-oliver-baez-bendorf/|title=Ritual by Oliver Baez Bendorf {{!}} BWR|date=2018-01-11|work=BWR|access-date=2018-04-17|language=en-US}}</ref> ''jubilat'',<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.jubilat.org/jubilat/archive/issue24/|title=Number 24 - jubilat|website=www.jubilat.org|access-date=2017-06-07}}</ref> ''Poetry Magazine'',<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/149016/bone-dust|title=Bone Dust by Oliver Baez Bendorf|last=Magazine|first=Poetry|date=2019-04-02|website=Poetry Foundation|language=en|access-date=2019-04-02}}</ref> and ''[[Troubling the Line]]: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics.''<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-body-of-the-poem-on-transgender-poetry/#!|title=The Body of the Poem: On Transgender Poetry - Los Angeles Review of Books|work=Los Angeles Review of Books|access-date=2017-06-07|language=en-US}}</ref> He has published essays<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.buzzfeed.com/oliverbendorf/after-i-came-out-as-a-transgender-man-a-teacher-asked-if-it|title=After I Came Out As A Transgender Man, I Was Asked If It Felt Like I Had Died|last=Bendorf|first=Oliver|website=BuzzFeed|access-date=2018-01-04}}</ref> and [[comics poetry]],<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://therumpus.net/2016/04/spotlight-a-poetry-comics-roundtable/|title=Spotlight: A Poetry Comics Discussion|date=2016-04-11|work=The Rumpus.net|access-date=2018-01-04|language=en-US}}</ref> in addition to poetry, and his poetry has been translated into Russian by [[Dmitry Kuzmin]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.litkarta.ru/projects/vozdukh/issues/2018-36/bendorf/ |title=Квирные факты об овощах |last=Бендорф |first=Оливер |date=2018 |website=Воздух |language=Russian |access-date=March 20, 2021}}</ref>


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His work has appeared in publications including Academy of American Poets' ''Poem-a-Day'',<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/evergreen-0|title=Evergreen|last=Baez Bendorf|first=Oliver|date=2017-12-18|website=Evergreen|language=en|access-date=2018-04-17}}</ref> ''American Poetry Review'',<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://aprweb.org/poems/river-i-dream-about|title=American Poetry Review - Oliver Baez Bendorf - "River I Dream About"|website=American Poetry Review|language=en|access-date=2019-04-02}}</ref> ''BOMB,''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://shop.bombmagazine.org/products/bomb-147-fall-2020|title=BOMB 147 / Spring 2019|website=shop.bombmagazine.org|language=en|access-date=2019-04-02}}</ref> ''Black Warrior Review'',<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://bwr.ua.edu/ritual-by-oliver-baez-bendorf/|title=Ritual by Oliver Baez Bendorf {{!}} BWR|date=2018-01-11|work=BWR|access-date=2018-04-17|language=en-US}}</ref> ''jubilat'',<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.jubilat.org/jubilat/archive/issue24/|title=Number 24 - jubilat|website=www.jubilat.org|access-date=2017-06-07}}</ref> ''Poetry Magazine'',<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/149016/bone-dust|title=Bone Dust by Oliver Baez Bendorf|last=Magazine|first=Poetry|date=2019-04-02|website=Poetry Foundation|language=en|access-date=2019-04-02}}</ref> and ''[[Troubling the Line]]: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics.''<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-body-of-the-poem-on-transgender-poetry/#!|title=The Body of the Poem: On Transgender Poetry - Los Angeles Review of Books|work=Los Angeles Review of Books|access-date=2017-06-07|language=en-US}}</ref> He has published essays<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.buzzfeed.com/oliverbendorf/after-i-came-out-as-a-transgender-man-a-teacher-asked-if-it|title=After I Came Out As A Transgender Man, I Was Asked If It Felt Like I Had Died|last=Bendorf|first=Oliver|website=BuzzFeed|date=21 January 2014 |access-date=2018-01-04}}</ref> and [[comics poetry]],<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://therumpus.net/2016/04/spotlight-a-poetry-comics-roundtable/|title=Spotlight: A Poetry Comics Discussion|date=2016-04-11|work=The Rumpus.net|access-date=2018-01-04|language=en-US}}</ref> in addition to poetry, and his poetry has been translated into Russian by [[Dmitry Kuzmin]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.litkarta.ru/projects/vozdukh/issues/2018-36/bendorf/ |title=Квирные факты об овощах |last=Бендорф |first=Оливер |date=2018 |website=Воздух |language=Russian |access-date=March 20, 2021}}</ref>
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His debut full-length collection, ''The Spectral Wilderness''<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.kentstateuniversitypress.com/2014/the-spectral-wilderness/|title=The Spectral Wilderness - The Kent State University Press|website=www.kentstateuniversitypress.com|language=en-US|access-date=2017-06-08}}</ref>'','' was selected by [[Mark Doty]] for the 2013 Stan & Tom Wick Poetry Prize, and released by [[Kent State University Press]] in 2015.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.kent.edu/cas/news/2013-stan-and-tom-wick-poetry-prize-awarded-oliver-bendorf|title=2013 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize Awarded to Oliver Bendorf {{!}} Kent State University|website=www.kent.edu|language=en|access-date=2017-06-08}}</ref> His second collection, ''Advantages of Being Evergreen'', was selected for the 2018 Open Book Poetry Competition from [[Cleveland State University Poetry Center]], and was published in September 2019.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.csupoetrycenter.com/news-1/2018/6/26/2018-book-contest-results|title=2018 Book Contest Results|website=Cleveland State University Poetry Center|language=en-US|access-date=2019-04-02}}</ref>


He has taught poetry and creative writing at [[University of Wisconsin–Madison|University of Wisconsin-Madison]], 826DC, [[Madison Public Library (Madison, Wisconsin)|Madison Public Library]], [[District of Columbia Public Schools]], [[Mount Holyoke College]], Wick Poetry Center, [[Kalamazoo College]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=English: Faculty and Staff. Kalamazoo College |url=https://reason.kzoo.edu/english/faculty/ |access-date=2018-08-29 |website=reason.kzoo.edu |language=en-US}}</ref> Bread Loaf Environmental Writers' Conference,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Faculty and Guests {{!}} Middlebury Bread Loaf Writers' Conferences |url=https://www.middlebury.edu/writers-conferences/environmental-writers-conference/faculty-guests |access-date=2023-02-11 |website=www.middlebury.edu |language=en}}</ref> and elsewhere.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Events |url=https://www.oliverbaezbendorf.com/events |access-date=2023-02-11 |website=Oliver Baez Bendorf |language=en-US}}</ref>
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Bendorf is a [[transgender man]], and has used his work to discuss [[gender identity]] and [[transitioning (transgender)|transition]], sometimes in humorous ways.<ref name="buzzfeed-20jan2014">{{cite web|last1=Bendorf|first1=Oliver|title=After I Came Out As A Transgender Man, I Was Asked If It Felt Like I Had Died|url=https://www.buzzfeed.com/oliverbendorf/after-i-came-out-as-a-transgender-man-a-teacher-asked-if-it|website=[[BuzzFeed]]|access-date=June 7, 2017|date=January 20, 2014}}</ref><ref name="mic-23sep2016">{{cite web|last1=Rodriguez|first1=Mathew|title=In Oliver Bendorf's 'Top Surgery' zine, a trans man uses humor to recover — and to educate|url=https://mic.com/articles/154891/in-oliver-bendorf-s-top-surgery-zine-a-trans-man-uses-humor-to-recover-and-to-educate|website=[[Mic.com]]|access-date=June 7, 2017|date=September 23, 2016}}</ref> He is of German, Southern Italian, and Puerto Rican (Afro-Taíno and Spanish) ancestry.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://bombmagazine.org/articles/settler-unsettled/|title=Settler/Unsettled by Oliver Baez Bendorf - BOMB Magazine|website=bombmagazine.org|access-date=2019-10-07}}</ref>


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Bendorf is a [[transgender man]], and has used his work to discuss [[gender identity]] and [[transitioning (transgender)|transition]], sometimes in humorous ways.<ref name="buzzfeed-20jan2014">{{cite web|last1=Bendorf|first1=Oliver|title=After I Came Out As A Transgender Man, I Was Asked If It Felt Like I Had Died|url=https://www.buzzfeed.com/oliverbendorf/after-i-came-out-as-a-transgender-man-a-teacher-asked-if-it|website=[[BuzzFeed]]|access-date=June 7, 2017|date=January 20, 2014}}</ref><ref name="mic-23sep2016">{{cite web|last1=Rodriguez|first1=Mathew|title=In Oliver Bendorf's 'Top Surgery' zine, a trans man uses humor to recover — and to educate|url=https://mic.com/articles/154891/in-oliver-bendorf-s-top-surgery-zine-a-trans-man-uses-humor-to-recover-and-to-educate|website=[[Mic.com]]|access-date=June 7, 2017|date=September 23, 2016}}</ref> He is of German, Southern Italian, and Puerto Rican (Afro-Taíno and Spanish) ancestry.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://bombmagazine.org/articles/settler-unsettled/|title=Settler/Unsettled by Oliver Baez Bendorf - BOMB Magazine|website=bombmagazine.org|date=25 June 2019 |access-date=2019-10-07}}</ref>
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He was an Assistant Professor of English at [[Kalamazoo College]] in Michigan.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://reason.kzoo.edu/english/faculty/|title=English: Faculty and Staff. Kalamazoo College|website=reason.kzoo.edu|language=en-US|access-date=2018-08-29}}</ref> In 2019, Bendorf was announced as a faculty member at the 2019 Conference on Poetry at [[The Frost Place]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://frostplace.org/programs/conference-on-poetry/2019-cop-faculty-fellows/|title=Meet the Faculty of 2018 The Frost Place Conference on Poetry|date=2019-02-20|website=The Frost Place|language=en-US|access-date=2019-04-02}}</ref> In 2020, Bendorf was awarded the [[Betty Berzon Emerging Writer Award]] from [[Publishing Triangle]], presented to an LGBTQ writer who has shown exceptional talent and promise.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.pw.org/content/publishing_triangle_awards_finalists_yiyun_lis_virtual_book_club_and_more|title=Publishing Triangle Awards Finalists, Yiyun Li's Virtual Book Club, and More|date=2020-03-17|website=Poets & Writers|language=en|access-date=2020-03-18}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://publishingtriangle.org/2020/03/oliver-baez-bendorf-award/|title=Oliver Baez Bendorf Wins Betty Berzon Emerging Writer Award|date=2020-03-16|website=The Publishing Triangle|language=en-US|access-date=2020-03-18}}</ref>In 2021, he founded Spellworks, "a fun, welcoming portal for anyone working with the magic of poetry."<ref>{{Cite web|title=https://twitter.com/queerpoetics/status/1460708661307736064|url=https://twitter.com/queerpoetics/status/1460708661307736064|access-date=2021-12-01|website=Twitter|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=About Spellworks|url=https://www.spellworkspoetry.com/about|access-date=2021-12-01|website=www.spellworkspoetry.com|language=en}}</ref>

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In 2020, Bendorf was awarded the [[Betty Berzon Emerging Writer Award]] from [[Publishing Triangle]], presented to an LGBTQ writer who has shown exceptional talent and promise.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.pw.org/content/publishing_triangle_awards_finalists_yiyun_lis_virtual_book_club_and_more|title=Publishing Triangle Awards Finalists, Yiyun Li's Virtual Book Club, and More|date=2020-03-17|website=Poets & Writers|language=en|access-date=2020-03-18}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://publishingtriangle.org/2020/03/oliver-baez-bendorf-award/|title=Oliver Baez Bendorf Wins Betty Berzon Emerging Writer Award|date=2020-03-16|website=The Publishing Triangle|language=en-US|access-date=2020-03-18}}</ref> Bendorf was a 2021 [[National Endowment for the Arts]] Fellow.<ref>{{Cite web |title=National Endowment for the Arts Supports the Arts with over $27.5 Million in Awards in First Round of FY2021 Funding |url=https://www.arts.gov/news/press-releases/2021/national-endowment-arts-supports-arts-over-275-million-awards-first-round-fy2021-funding |access-date=2023-02-11 |website=www.arts.gov |date=4 February 2021 |language=en}}</ref> In 2021, he joined the poetry faculty of the low-residency MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Caleb |date=2022-05-27 |title=Oliver Baez Bendorf |url=https://www.wwcmfa.org/oliver-baez-bendorf-2/ |access-date=2023-02-11 |website=MFA Program for Writers {{!}} Warren Wilson |language=en-US}}</ref>


== Awards and honors ==
== Awards and honors ==
* 2021 [[National Endowment for the Arts]] Fellowship for Poetry<ref>{{Cite web|title=National Endowment for the Arts Supports the Arts with over $27.5 Million in Awards in First Round of FY2021 Funding|url=https://www.arts.gov/about/news/2021/national-endowment-arts-supports-arts-over-275-million-awards-first-round-fy2021-funding|access-date=2021-02-19|website=www.arts.gov|language=en}}</ref>
* 2021 [[National Endowment for the Arts]] Fellowship for Poetry<ref>{{Cite web|title=National Endowment for the Arts Supports the Arts with over $27.5 Million in Awards in First Round of FY2021 Funding|url=https://www.arts.gov/about/news/2021/national-endowment-arts-supports-arts-over-275-million-awards-first-round-fy2021-funding|access-date=2021-02-19|website=www.arts.gov|date=4 February 2021 |language=en}}</ref>
*2020 [[Betty Berzon Emerging Writer Award]], [[Publishing Triangle]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.pw.org/content/publishing_triangle_awards_finalists_yiyun_lis_virtual_book_club_and_more|title=Publishing Triangle Awards Finalists, Yiyun Li's Virtual Book Club, and More|date=2020-03-17|website=Poets & Writers|language=en|access-date=2020-03-18}}</ref>
*2020 [[Betty Berzon Emerging Writer Award]], [[Publishing Triangle]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.pw.org/content/publishing_triangle_awards_finalists_yiyun_lis_virtual_book_club_and_more|title=Publishing Triangle Awards Finalists, Yiyun Li's Virtual Book Club, and More|date=2020-03-17|website=Poets & Writers|language=en|access-date=2020-03-18}}</ref>
*2019 [[Rane Arroyo]] Chapbook Series Prize, Seven Kitchens Press<ref>https://sevenkitchenspress.com/rane-arroyo-series/oliver-baez-bendorf-the-gospel-according-to-x/</ref>
*2019 [[Rane Arroyo]] Chapbook Series Prize, Seven Kitchens Press<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://sevenkitchenspress.com/rane-arroyo-series/oliver-baez-bendorf-the-gospel-according-to-x/|title=Oliver Baez Bendorf &#124; the Gospel According to X|date=8 January 2019}}</ref>
*2018 Open Book Poetry Competition, [[Cleveland State University Poetry Center]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.csupoetrycenter.com/news-1/2018/6/26/2018-book-contest-results|title=2018 Book Contest Results|work=Cleveland State University Poetry Center|access-date=2018-08-29|language=en-US}}</ref>
*2018 Open Book Poetry Competition, [[Cleveland State University Poetry Center]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.csupoetrycenter.com/news-1/2018/6/26/2018-book-contest-results|title=2018 Book Contest Results|work=Cleveland State University Poetry Center|access-date=2018-08-29|language=en-US}}</ref>
*2017-2018 Halls Emerging Artist Fellowship at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://creativewriting.wisc.edu/fellowships.html|title=WI Institute for Creative Writing Fellowships|website=WI Institute for Creative Writing|language=en-US|access-date=2017-06-07}}</ref>
*2017-2018 Halls Emerging Artist Fellowship at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://creativewriting.wisc.edu/fellowships.html|title=WI Institute for Creative Writing Fellowships|website=WI Institute for Creative Writing|language=en-US|access-date=2017-06-07}}</ref>
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== Works ==
== Works ==
* Poem: "I Just Chose My Place and Let the Circle Form Around Me". [[The Nation]]. 2021.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Bendorf |first=Oliver Baez |date=2021-10-19 |title=I Just Chose My Place and Let the Circle Form Around Me |language=en-US |url=https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/i-just-chose-my-place-and-let-the-circle-form-around-me/ |access-date=2023-07-20 |issn=0027-8378}}</ref>
* Poem: “Impervious”. [[The Cincinnati Review]]. 2020. <ref>{{cite web | access-date=2023-07-20 | url=https://www.cincinnatireview.com/samples/impervious-by-oliver-baez-bendorf/ |author=<!--Not stated--> | title="Impervious" by Oliver Baez Bendorf - The Cincinnati Review | date=2020-06-04 |website=www.cincinnatireview.com | language=en-US}}</ref>
* Poem: “River I Dream About”. [[The American Poetry Review|American Poetry Review]]. 2020.<ref>{{Cite web |title=American Poetry Review - Oliver Baez Bendorf - "River I Dream About" |url=http://aprweb.org/poems/river-i-dream-about |access-date=2023-07-20 |website=American Poetry Review |language=en}}</ref>
* Poem: "Settler/Unsettled". [[Bomb (magazine)|BOMB Magazine]]. 2019.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-06-25 |title=BOMB Magazine {{!}} Settler/Unsettled |url=https://bombmagazine.org/articles/settler-unsettled/ |access-date=2023-07-20 |website=BOMB Magazine}}</ref>
* Book: ''Advantages of Being Evergreen''. [[Cleveland State University Poetry Center]]. 2019. {{ISBN|9781880834008}}.
* Book: ''Advantages of Being Evergreen''. [[Cleveland State University Poetry Center]]. 2019. {{ISBN|9781880834008}}.
*Book: {{cite book|title=The Spectral Wilderness: Poems|date=2015|publisher=Kent State University Press|isbn=9781606352113}}
*Book: {{cite book|title=The Spectral Wilderness: Poems|date=2015|publisher=Kent State University Press|isbn=9781606352113}}
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Oliver Baez Bendorf
Born (1987-06-21) June 21, 1987 (age 37)
Iowa City, Iowa, US
NationalityAmerican
EducationUniversity of Iowa (BA), University of Wisconsin-Madison (MFA) (MLIS)
GenrePoetry
Notable worksThe Spectral Wilderness (2015), Advantages of Being Evergreen (2019)
Website
www.oliverbaezbendorf.com

Oliver Baez Bendorf (born 1987) is an American poet.

Early life and education

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Oliver Baez Bendorf was born on June 21, 1987,[1] in Iowa City, Iowa.[2] His poems sometimes feature the landscape of his childhood,[3] and his writing about returning to Iowa for a visit while transitioning genders was published in Buzzfeed.[4] He graduated with a BA from the University of Iowa in 2009. In 2013, he earned an MFA in poetry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he met his teachers Lynda Barry,[5] Quan Barry, Amaud Jamaul Johnson, Jesse Lee Kercheval, and Ronald Wallace.[6] In 2015, he received an MA in Library and Information Studies, also from the University of Wisconsin-Madison,[7] where he worked with The Little Magazine Collection, one of the most extensive of its kind in the United States.[8][9] Bendorf is a fellow of the CantoMundo Poetry Workshop.

Career

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Bendorf's poetry publications include the book The Spectral Wilderness[10], selected by Mark Doty for the 2013 Stan & Tom Wick Poetry Prize, and released by Kent State University Press in 2015,[11] and Advantages of Being Evergreen, which was selected for the 2018 Open Book Poetry Competition from Cleveland State University Poetry Center and published in September 2019. [12] American poet Gabrielle Calvocoressi called Advantages of Being Evergreen "an essential book for our time and for all time" and wrote that "Baez Bendorf is making a future grammar for the moment all of our vessels are free and held. I am living for the world these poems anticipate… This is a book of the earth’s abiding wonder. And the body’s unbreakable ability to bloom."[13]

His third book of poems, Consider the Rooster, will be published by Nightboat Books in 2024.[14]

His work has appeared in publications including Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day,[15] American Poetry Review,[16] BOMB,[17] Black Warrior Review,[18] jubilat,[19] Poetry Magazine,[20] and Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics.[21] He has published essays[22] and comics poetry,[23] in addition to poetry, and his poetry has been translated into Russian by Dmitry Kuzmin.[24]

He has taught poetry and creative writing at University of Wisconsin-Madison, 826DC, Madison Public Library, District of Columbia Public Schools, Mount Holyoke College, Wick Poetry Center, Kalamazoo College,[25] Bread Loaf Environmental Writers' Conference,[26] and elsewhere.[27]

Bendorf is a transgender man, and has used his work to discuss gender identity and transition, sometimes in humorous ways.[28][29] He is of German, Southern Italian, and Puerto Rican (Afro-Taíno and Spanish) ancestry.[30]

In 2020, Bendorf was awarded the Betty Berzon Emerging Writer Award from Publishing Triangle, presented to an LGBTQ writer who has shown exceptional talent and promise.[31][32] Bendorf was a 2021 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow.[33] In 2021, he joined the poetry faculty of the low-residency MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.[34]

Awards and honors

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Works

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  • Poem: "I Just Chose My Place and Let the Circle Form Around Me". The Nation. 2021.[44]
  • Poem: “Impervious”. The Cincinnati Review. 2020. [45]
  • Poem: “River I Dream About”. American Poetry Review. 2020.[46]
  • Poem: "Settler/Unsettled". BOMB Magazine. 2019.[47]
  • Book: Advantages of Being Evergreen. Cleveland State University Poetry Center. 2019. ISBN 9781880834008.
  • Book: The Spectral Wilderness: Poems. Kent State University Press. 2015. ISBN 9781606352113.

References

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  1. ^ "Bendorf, Oliver, 1987-". Library of Congress. Retrieved June 7, 2017.
  2. ^ "Oliver Baez Bendorf". Oliver Baez Bendorf. Retrieved 2019-04-02.
  3. ^ Sahaidachny, Rachel (2016-07-12). "The Spectral Wilderness / Oliver Bendorf". thesoutheastreview. Retrieved 2023-02-11.
  4. ^ Bendorf, Oliver Baez (21 January 2014). "After I Came Out As A Transgender Man, I Was Asked If It Felt Like I Had Died". BuzzFeed. Retrieved 2023-02-11.
  5. ^ "An Interview With Oliver Baez Bendorf | Poets & Writers". www.pw.org. 6 September 2016. Retrieved 2017-06-07.
  6. ^ "Graduate Creative Writing Faculty". creativewriting.wisc.edu. Archived from the original on 2018-07-27. Retrieved 2019-11-29.
  7. ^ Mears, Jaime (February 22, 2017). "Assembling the Whole: An Interview with Librarian|Artist Oliver Baez Bendorf". The Signal. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2017-06-07.
  8. ^ "Little Magazine Interview Index – UW Digital Collections". Retrieved 2019-04-02.
  9. ^ "The Oliver Bendorf Exit Interview". Little Magazine Collection. Retrieved 2019-04-02.
  10. ^ "The Spectral Wilderness - The Kent State University Press". www.kentstateuniversitypress.com. Retrieved 2017-06-08.
  11. ^ "2013 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize Awarded to Oliver Bendorf | Kent State University". www.kent.edu. Retrieved 2017-06-08.
  12. ^ "2018 Book Contest Results". Cleveland State University Poetry Center. 27 June 2018. Retrieved 2019-04-02.
  13. ^ "Advantages of Being Evergreen". Cleveland State University Poetry Center. Retrieved 2023-02-11.
  14. ^ "Queers in Winter with Oliver Baez Bendorf, Michael V. Smith and Hazel Jane Plante (on Zoom)". Creative Writing. Retrieved 2023-02-11.
  15. ^ Baez Bendorf, Oliver (2017-12-18). "Evergreen". Evergreen. Retrieved 2018-04-17.
  16. ^ "American Poetry Review - Oliver Baez Bendorf - "River I Dream About"". American Poetry Review. Retrieved 2019-04-02.
  17. ^ "BOMB 147 / Spring 2019". shop.bombmagazine.org. Retrieved 2019-04-02.
  18. ^ "Ritual by Oliver Baez Bendorf | BWR". BWR. 2018-01-11. Retrieved 2018-04-17.
  19. ^ "Number 24 - jubilat". www.jubilat.org. Retrieved 2017-06-07.
  20. ^ Magazine, Poetry (2019-04-02). "Bone Dust by Oliver Baez Bendorf". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 2019-04-02.
  21. ^ "The Body of the Poem: On Transgender Poetry - Los Angeles Review of Books". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 2017-06-07.
  22. ^ Bendorf, Oliver (21 January 2014). "After I Came Out As A Transgender Man, I Was Asked If It Felt Like I Had Died". BuzzFeed. Retrieved 2018-01-04.
  23. ^ "Spotlight: A Poetry Comics Discussion". The Rumpus.net. 2016-04-11. Retrieved 2018-01-04.
  24. ^ Бендорф, Оливер (2018). "Квирные факты об овощах". Воздух (in Russian). Retrieved March 20, 2021.
  25. ^ "English: Faculty and Staff. Kalamazoo College". reason.kzoo.edu. Retrieved 2018-08-29.
  26. ^ "Faculty and Guests | Middlebury Bread Loaf Writers' Conferences". www.middlebury.edu. Retrieved 2023-02-11.
  27. ^ "Events". Oliver Baez Bendorf. Retrieved 2023-02-11.
  28. ^ Bendorf, Oliver (January 20, 2014). "After I Came Out As A Transgender Man, I Was Asked If It Felt Like I Had Died". BuzzFeed. Retrieved June 7, 2017.
  29. ^ Rodriguez, Mathew (September 23, 2016). "In Oliver Bendorf's 'Top Surgery' zine, a trans man uses humor to recover — and to educate". Mic.com. Retrieved June 7, 2017.
  30. ^ "Settler/Unsettled by Oliver Baez Bendorf - BOMB Magazine". bombmagazine.org. 25 June 2019. Retrieved 2019-10-07.
  31. ^ "Publishing Triangle Awards Finalists, Yiyun Li's Virtual Book Club, and More". Poets & Writers. 2020-03-17. Retrieved 2020-03-18.
  32. ^ "Oliver Baez Bendorf Wins Betty Berzon Emerging Writer Award". The Publishing Triangle. 2020-03-16. Retrieved 2020-03-18.
  33. ^ "National Endowment for the Arts Supports the Arts with over $27.5 Million in Awards in First Round of FY2021 Funding". www.arts.gov. 4 February 2021. Retrieved 2023-02-11.
  34. ^ Caleb (2022-05-27). "Oliver Baez Bendorf". MFA Program for Writers | Warren Wilson. Retrieved 2023-02-11.
  35. ^ "National Endowment for the Arts Supports the Arts with over $27.5 Million in Awards in First Round of FY2021 Funding". www.arts.gov. 4 February 2021. Retrieved 2021-02-19.
  36. ^ "Publishing Triangle Awards Finalists, Yiyun Li's Virtual Book Club, and More". Poets & Writers. 2020-03-17. Retrieved 2020-03-18.
  37. ^ "Oliver Baez Bendorf | the Gospel According to X". 8 January 2019.
  38. ^ "2018 Book Contest Results". Cleveland State University Poetry Center. Retrieved 2018-08-29.
  39. ^ "WI Institute for Creative Writing Fellowships". WI Institute for Creative Writing. Retrieved 2017-06-07.
  40. ^ "Oliver Bendorf, selected by Natalie Diaz - Poetry Society of America". www.poetrysociety.org. Retrieved 2017-06-07.
  41. ^ "Bear Deluxe Magazine". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 2017-06-07.
  42. ^ "2013 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize Awarded to Oliver Bendorf | Kent State University". www.kent.edu. Retrieved 2017-06-07.
  43. ^ Daily, Verse. "About Oliver Bendorf and The Journal". www.versedaily.org. Retrieved 2017-06-07.
  44. ^ Bendorf, Oliver Baez (2021-10-19). "I Just Chose My Place and Let the Circle Form Around Me". ISSN 0027-8378. Retrieved 2023-07-20.
  45. ^ ""Impervious" by Oliver Baez Bendorf - The Cincinnati Review". www.cincinnatireview.com. 2020-06-04. Retrieved 2023-07-20.
  46. ^ "American Poetry Review - Oliver Baez Bendorf - "River I Dream About"". American Poetry Review. Retrieved 2023-07-20.
  47. ^ "BOMB Magazine | Settler/Unsettled". BOMB Magazine. 2019-06-25. Retrieved 2023-07-20.
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