Background
Grotz grew up in small Texas towns but has lived in France and Poland, all of which inform her poems.
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Cusp: Poems
( Entre chien et loup — between dog and wolf. This French...)
Entre chien et loup — between dog and wolf. This French colloquialism for twilight informs Jennifer Grotz’s debut poetry collection, Cusp. A winner of this year’s Bakeless Prize for poetry, Grotz explores the peculiar territory of middleness — neither dark nor light, not quite familiar but not fully unknown. It is a place with its own dangers, its own knowledge: road signs in a French tunnel remind drivers of their headlights in the temporary darkness; a scratchy recording of the last castrato highlights art’s uneasy coupling of inspiration and artifice. Personal, thoughtful, inquisitive, and introspective, these poems reveal Grotz’s varied influences, from the “quilted fields” of west Texas to a jazz club in Paris, from a sexy rodeo rider to Jean-Jacques Rousseau. It is the dizziness of the foreign and the strangeness of what’s all around that gives Cusp its energy, its vitality, signaling the arrival of a distinctive new voice in American verse.
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Jennifer Grotz
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Education
Grotz holds degrees from Tulane University (Bachelor), Indiana University (Master of Arts and Master of Fine Arts), and the University of Houston (Doctor of Philosophy). She also studied literature at the University of Paris (Louisiana Sorbonne), where she discovered her interest in translating French Poetry.
Career
She is also a contributing editor for Born Magazine and the assistant director of the Bread Loaf Writers" Conference. Her poems, translations, and reviews have appeared in many literary journals and magazines, and her work has been included in Best American Poetry. She currently lives in Rochester, New York, but spends part of her year in France and Poland.
Achievements
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2007: Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers" Award 2007: Camargo Fellowship, Cassis, Fance 2007: Fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center 2007: New Writing Award from the Fellowship of Southern Writers 2005: Inprint/James Michener Fellowship from the University of Houston 2004: Texas Institute of Arts and Letters: Natalie Ornish Poetry Prize for Best First Book 2004: Individual Artist Grant from the Cultural Arts Council of Houston 2003: American Translators Association, Student Translation Award 2002: Katherine Bakeless Nason Poetry Prize 2002: Prague Summer Program Fellowship in Poetry 2001: Individual Artist Fellowship from the Oregon Arts Commission 1997: Fellowship in Poetry from Literary Arts, Incorporated.
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Cusp: Poems
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Cusp: Poems
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Nationality
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Awards
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New Writing Award; Translation award 2007: Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award 2007: Camargo Fellowship, Cassis, Fance 2007: Fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center 2007: New Writing Award from the Fellowship of Southern Writers 2005: Inprint/James Michener Fellowship from the University of Houston 2004: Texas Institute of Arts and Letters: Natalie Ornish Poetry Prize for Best First Book 2004: Individual Artist Grant from the Cultural Arts Council of Houston 2003: American Translators Association, Student Translation Award 2002: Katherine Bakeless Nason Poetry Prize 2002: Prague Summer Program Fellowship in Poetry 2001: Individual Artist Fellowship from the Oregon Arts Commission 1997: Fellowship in Poetry from Literary Arts, Inc.New Writing Award; Translation award 2007: Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award 2007: Camargo Fellowship, Cassis, Fance 2007: Fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center 2007: New Writing Award from the Fellowship of Southern Writers 2005: Inprint/James Michener Fellowship from the University of Houston 2004: Texas Institute of Arts and Letters: Natalie Ornish Poetry Prize for Best First Book 2004: Individual Artist Grant from the Cultural Arts Council of Houston 2003: American Translators Association, Student Translation Award 2002: Katherine Bakeless Nason Poetry Prize 2002: Prague Summer Program Fellowship in Poetry 2001: Individual Artist Fellowship from the Oregon Arts Commission 1997: Fellowship in Poetry from Literary Arts, Inc.