Michael McGriff

Michael McGriff is the author of two collections of poetry, Dismantling the Hills (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008) and The Sequence of the Night (forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press in 2012). He is the editor of To Build My Shadow a Fire: The Poetry and Translations of David Wevill (Truman State University Press, 2010), and is the translator of Swedish poet Tomas Transtromer's The Sorrow Gondola (Green Integer, 2010). Michael is the co-founder and editor of Tavern Books, an independent poetry press devoted to publishing books in translation. Michael is the 2010 recipient of a literary fellowship from the Lannan Foundation, and is happy to call Salt Lake City his new home.