Matthew Zapruder is the author of two collections of poetry: American Linden and The Pajamaist, (Copper Canyon, 2006). The Pajamaist was selected by Tony Hoagland as the winner of the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America, and was chosen by Library Journal as one of the top ten poetry volumes of 2006. He is also co-translator from Romanian, along with historian Radu Ioanid of Secret Weapon: Selected Late Poems of Eugen Jebeleanu (Coffee House Press, 2007). German and Slovenian language editions of his poems are forthcoming in 2009 from Luxbooks and Serpa Editions; Luxbooks is also publishing a separate German language graphic novel version of the poem "The Pajamaist." In Fall 2007 he was a Lannan Literary Fellow in Marfa Texas, and he was a recipient in 2008 of a May Sarton prize from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His third full-length collection of poems, Come On All You Ghosts, is forthcoming from Copper Canyon in 2010. He lives in San Francisco, teaches poetry as a member of the permanent faculty of the Juniper Summer Writing Institute at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, and works as an editor for Wave Books. Mr. Zapruder is part of the core faculty of UCR-Palm Desert’s Low Residency MFA in Creative Writing & Writing for the Performing Arts.