A Chicago-based poet and translator of Chilean descent, Daniel Borzutzky was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His collection The Performance of Becoming Human (Brooklyn Arts Press, 2016) won the 2016 National Book Award for Poetry. Lake Michigan (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018) was a finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize. He received the 2017 National Translation Award for Poetry from the American Literary Translators Association. He is a professor at the University of Illinois Chicago.
