Jaclyn Piudik is the translator/author of Paul Celan: The Dark Oar (Beautiful Outlaw, 2024), author of To Suture What Frays (Kelsay Books, 2017) and co-author of Seduction: Out of Eden (Kelsay Books, 2022), as well as three chapbooks, the corpus undone in the blizzard (Espresso Chapbooks 2019), Of Gazelles Unheard (Beautiful Outlaw 2013) and The Tao of Loathliness (fooliar press 2005/8). . Her poems have appeared in numerous anthologies and journals, including New American Writing, Contemporary Verse 2, and Barrow Street. In summer 2026, her poetry was featured in a collaborative exhibition, “My Tongue Awakening into Pigment,” with visual artist Ivilina Kouneva at the Women’s Art Library in Goldsmiths University of London. Piudik received a New York Times Fellowship for Creative Writing, the Alice M. Sellers Award from the Academy of American Poets, and the 2022 Very Small Verse Prize from the League of Canadian Poets. She holds an M.A. in Creative Writing from the City College of New York, as well as a Ph.D. in Medieval Studies from the University of Toronto. Her poetic memoir, Afterwar/d, is forthcoming from Gordon Hill/Porcupine’s Quill Press. www.jaclynpiudik.com
