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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 June 21, 1987) is an American poet and writer.

Life and career

Oliver Baez Bendorf was born on June 21, 1987,[1] in Iowa City, Iowa.[2] 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, where he met his teachers Lynda Barry,[3] Quan Barry, Amaud Jamaul Johnson, Jesse Lee Kercheval, and Ronald Wallace.[4] In 2015, he received an MA in Library and Information Studies, also from the University of Wisconsin-Madison,[5] where he assisted with The Little Magazine Collection, one of the most extensive of its kind in the United States.[6][7] Bendorf is a fellow of the CantoMundo Poetry Workshop.

He has taught poetry at a selection of institutions including University of Wisconsin-Madison, 826DC, Madison Public Library, District of Columbia Public Schools, Mount Holyoke College, Wick Poetry Center, and elsewhere.[8]

His work has been featured in outlets including Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day,[9] American Poetry Review,[10] BOMB,[11] Black Warrior Review,[12] jubilat,[13] Poetry Magazine,[14] and Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics.[15] He has published essays[16] and comics poetry,[17] in addition to poetry, and his poetry has been translated into Russian by Dmitry Kuzmin.[18]

His debut full-length collection, The Spectral Wilderness[19], was selected by Mark Doty for the 2013 Stan & Tom Wick Poetry Prize, and released by Kent State University Press in 2015.[20] 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.[21]

Bendorf is a transgender man, and has used his work to discuss gender identity and transition, sometimes in humorous ways.[22][23] He is of German, Southern Italian, and Puerto Rican (Afro-Taíno and Spanish) ancestry.[24]

He was an Assistant Professor of English at Kalamazoo College in Michigan.[25] In 2019, Bendorf was announced as a faculty member at the 2019 Conference on Poetry at The Frost Place.[26] 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.[27][28]In 2021, he founded Spellworks, "a fun, welcoming portal for anyone working with the magic of poetry."[29][30]

Awards and honors

Works

  • 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

  1. ^ "Bendorf, Oliver, 1987-". Library of Congress. Retrieved June 7, 2017.
  2. ^ "Oliver Baez Bendorf". Oliver Baez Bendorf. Retrieved 2019-04-02.
  3. ^ "An Interview With Oliver Baez Bendorf | Poets & Writers". www.pw.org. 6 September 2016. Retrieved 2017-06-07.
  4. ^ "Graduate Creative Writing Faculty". creativewriting.wisc.edu. Retrieved 2019-11-29.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ "Little Magazine Interview Index – UW Digital Collections". Retrieved 2019-04-02.
  7. ^ "The Oliver Bendorf Exit Interview". Little Magazine Collection. Retrieved 2019-04-02.
  8. ^ "Teaching". Oliver Baez Bendorf. 2019-10-07. Retrieved 2019-10-07.
  9. ^ Baez Bendorf, Oliver (2017-12-18). "Evergreen". Evergreen. Retrieved 2018-04-17.
  10. ^ "American Poetry Review - Oliver Baez Bendorf - "River I Dream About"". American Poetry Review. Retrieved 2019-04-02.
  11. ^ "BOMB 147 / Spring 2019". shop.bombmagazine.org. Retrieved 2019-04-02.
  12. ^ "Ritual by Oliver Baez Bendorf | BWR". BWR. 2018-01-11. Retrieved 2018-04-17.
  13. ^ "Number 24 - jubilat". www.jubilat.org. Retrieved 2017-06-07.
  14. ^ Magazine, Poetry (2019-04-02). "Bone Dust by Oliver Baez Bendorf". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 2019-04-02.
  15. ^ "The Body of the Poem: On Transgender Poetry - Los Angeles Review of Books". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 2017-06-07.
  16. ^ Bendorf, Oliver. "After I Came Out As A Transgender Man, I Was Asked If It Felt Like I Had Died". BuzzFeed. Retrieved 2018-01-04.
  17. ^ "Spotlight: A Poetry Comics Discussion". The Rumpus.net. 2016-04-11. Retrieved 2018-01-04.
  18. ^ Бендорф, Оливер (2018). "Квирные факты об овощах". Воздух (in Russian). Retrieved March 20, 2021.
  19. ^ "The Spectral Wilderness - The Kent State University Press". www.kentstateuniversitypress.com. Retrieved 2017-06-08.
  20. ^ "2013 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize Awarded to Oliver Bendorf | Kent State University". www.kent.edu. Retrieved 2017-06-08.
  21. ^ "2018 Book Contest Results". Cleveland State University Poetry Center. Retrieved 2019-04-02.
  22. ^ 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.
  23. ^ 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.
  24. ^ "Settler/Unsettled by Oliver Baez Bendorf - BOMB Magazine". bombmagazine.org. Retrieved 2019-10-07.
  25. ^ "English: Faculty and Staff. Kalamazoo College". reason.kzoo.edu. Retrieved 2018-08-29.
  26. ^ "Meet the Faculty of 2018 The Frost Place Conference on Poetry". The Frost Place. 2019-02-20. Retrieved 2019-04-02.
  27. ^ "Publishing Triangle Awards Finalists, Yiyun Li's Virtual Book Club, and More". Poets & Writers. 2020-03-17. Retrieved 2020-03-18.
  28. ^ "Oliver Baez Bendorf Wins Betty Berzon Emerging Writer Award". The Publishing Triangle. 2020-03-16. Retrieved 2020-03-18.
  29. ^ "https://twitter.com/queerpoetics/status/1460708661307736064". Twitter. Retrieved 2021-12-01. {{cite web}}: External link in |title= (help)
  30. ^ "About Spellworks". www.spellworkspoetry.com. Retrieved 2021-12-01.
  31. ^ "National Endowment for the Arts Supports the Arts with over $27.5 Million in Awards in First Round of FY2021 Funding". www.arts.gov. Retrieved 2021-02-19.
  32. ^ "Publishing Triangle Awards Finalists, Yiyun Li's Virtual Book Club, and More". Poets & Writers. 2020-03-17. Retrieved 2020-03-18.
  33. ^ "2018 Book Contest Results". Cleveland State University Poetry Center. Retrieved 2018-08-29.
  34. ^ "WI Institute for Creative Writing Fellowships". WI Institute for Creative Writing. Retrieved 2017-06-07.
  35. ^ "Oliver Bendorf, selected by Natalie Diaz - Poetry Society of America". www.poetrysociety.org. Retrieved 2017-06-07.
  36. ^ "Bear Deluxe Magazine". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 2017-06-07.
  37. ^ "2013 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize Awarded to Oliver Bendorf | Kent State University". www.kent.edu. Retrieved 2017-06-07.
  38. ^ Daily, Verse. "About Oliver Bendorf and The Journal". www.versedaily.org. Retrieved 2017-06-07.
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