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Born in Philadelphia in 1968, GREGORY PARDLO is a graduate of Rutgers University, Camden. As an undergraduate, he managed the small business his grandfather owned in nearby Pennsauken, NJ, The Serengeti Café & Jazz Club. He received the MFA from New York University as a New York Times Fellow in Poetry in 2001.
Pardlo is the author of Totem, winner of the 2007 APR/ Honickman Prize chosen by Brenda Hillman; and translator, from the Danish, of Niels Lyngsoe's, Pencil of Rays and Spiked Mace (Bookthug, 2004). He has received fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, The Cave Canem Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, The Seaside Institute, The Lotos Club Foundation, and a translation grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. He currently serves as Poetry Book Review Editor of Callaloo, and is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at George Washington University. He divides his time between Washington, D.C. and Brooklyn, where he and his family care for an old house in the Bedford Stuyvesant neighborhood. To book a reading, lecture, or visit, e-mail gregory@pardlo.com |
