Joe Milford Hosts Matthew Zapruder

Born in 1967 in Washington, DC, Matthew Zapruder is a widely published poet and translator, as well as the founder and Editor in Chief of the acclaimed poetry publishing house Verse Press (now Wave Books). His first book of poetry, American Linden, was the winner of the Tupelo Press Editors' Prize, and came out in 2002. His second collection, The Pajamaist, was released by Copper Canyon in 2006. His book of translations from the Romanian, Secret Weapon: The Late Poems of Eugen Jebeleanu, was published by Coffee House in 2007. Zapruder lives in San Francisco, works as an editor for Wave Books, and teaches in the low residency MFA program at UC Riverside-Palm Desert. In May/June of 2007 he was a Lannan Literary Fellow in Marfa Texas, and he is a recipient of a 2008 May Sarton prize from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.