Oliver Baez Bendorf’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro American poet and librarian
Is Poet 
From United States of America 
Type Literature 
Gender male, transgender male
Birth 21 June 1987, Iowa City
Age: 33 years

Oliver Baez Bendorf is an American poet and librarian.

Life

Oliver Baez Bendorf was born on June 21, 1987, in Iowa City, Iowa. 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 studied with Lynda Barry. In 2015, he received an MA in Library and Information Studies, also from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

He has taught poetry at University of Wisconsin-Madison and worked as a teaching artist at 826DC, Madison Public Library, District of Columbia Public Schools, Mount Holyoke College, Wick Poetry Center, and elsewhere.

His work has been published in journals and magazines such as Alaska Quarterly Review, Blackbird, diode, Indiana Review, jubilat, and Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics.

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

Bendorf is a transgender man, and has used his work to discuss gender identity and transition, sometimes in humorous ways.

Awards and honors

  • 2017-2018 Halls Emerging Artist Fellowship at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing
  • 2016 Finalist, Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry, The Publishing Triangle, for The Spectral Wilderness
  • 2015 New American Poets, Poetry Society of America. Selected by Natalie Diaz
  • 2013-14 Doug Fir Fiction Award, The Bear Deluxe. Selected by Lidia Yuknavitch
  • 2013 Stan & Tom Wick Poetry Prize, The Spectral Wilderness, Kent State University Press, 2015. Selected by Mark Doty
  • 2011-13 Martha Meier Renk Distinguished Graduate Fellowship in Poetry at University of Wisconsin-Madison

    Works

    • Book:  
    • Poem: ghost ship novena inside a year-long funeral (BOAAT)
    • Poem: I Promised Her My Hands Wouldn’t Get Any Larger (Ninth Letter)
    • Poem: Ten Telegrams from Paradise (Feminist Wire)
    • Poem: Queer Facts About Vegetables (Poetry Society of America)
    • Visual poems: Folio (Adirondack Review)
    • Visual poems: Folio (THRUSH Poetry Journal)
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