Presented By: University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program
Q&A with Poetry Editor Jeff Shotts (Graywolf Press) and Prof. Khaled Mattawa
This student-moderated Q&A will focus on the editing and publishing process, with particular emphasis on the interactions between Prof. Mattawa and Jeff Shotts of Graywolf Press in the publication of Prof. Mattawa's forthcoming book of poetry, Fugitive Atlas.
Jeff Shotts is Executive Editor at Graywolf Press, where for more than twenty years he has acquired and edited many works of poetry, nonfiction, translation, and multi-genre forms that resist categorization. He has worked with many authors including Kaveh Akbar, Elizabeth Alexander, Mary Jo Bang, Eula Biss, Eduardo C. Corral, Natalie Diaz, Tarfia Faizullah, Fanny Howe, Leslie Jamison, Ilya Kaminsky, Donika Kelly, Layli Long Soldier, Khaled Mattawa, Carl Phillips, D. A. Powell, Claudia Rankine, Erika L. Sánchez, Vijay Seshadri, Solmaz Sharif, Danez Smith, Tracy K. Smith, Susan Stewart, Mary Szybist, Natasha Trethewey, Mai Der Vang, Jenny Xie, Monica Youn, and Kevin Young. Books that he has acquired and edited have received the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and many other honors, and authors whose works he has acquired and edited have received the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Nobel Peace Prize. Shotts received the 2017 Editor’s Award from Poets & Writers and was named a 2017 Notable Person of the Year in Publishers Weekly. He lives in Minneapolis with his family.
Khaled Mattawa is the author of five books of poetry; his latest, Fugitive Atlas, is forthcoming from Graywolf in October 2020. He is also the author of Mahmoud Darwish: The Poet's Art and His Nation, a critical study of the great Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, recently published by Syracuse University Press; and How Long Have You Been with Us: Essays on Poetry (University of Michigan Press, 2016).
For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email asbates@umich.edu-- we are eager to help ensure that this event is inclusive to you. Live, high quality auto-captions/transcriptions will be provided at the event.
Jeff Shotts is Executive Editor at Graywolf Press, where for more than twenty years he has acquired and edited many works of poetry, nonfiction, translation, and multi-genre forms that resist categorization. He has worked with many authors including Kaveh Akbar, Elizabeth Alexander, Mary Jo Bang, Eula Biss, Eduardo C. Corral, Natalie Diaz, Tarfia Faizullah, Fanny Howe, Leslie Jamison, Ilya Kaminsky, Donika Kelly, Layli Long Soldier, Khaled Mattawa, Carl Phillips, D. A. Powell, Claudia Rankine, Erika L. Sánchez, Vijay Seshadri, Solmaz Sharif, Danez Smith, Tracy K. Smith, Susan Stewart, Mary Szybist, Natasha Trethewey, Mai Der Vang, Jenny Xie, Monica Youn, and Kevin Young. Books that he has acquired and edited have received the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and many other honors, and authors whose works he has acquired and edited have received the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Nobel Peace Prize. Shotts received the 2017 Editor’s Award from Poets & Writers and was named a 2017 Notable Person of the Year in Publishers Weekly. He lives in Minneapolis with his family.
Khaled Mattawa is the author of five books of poetry; his latest, Fugitive Atlas, is forthcoming from Graywolf in October 2020. He is also the author of Mahmoud Darwish: The Poet's Art and His Nation, a critical study of the great Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, recently published by Syracuse University Press; and How Long Have You Been with Us: Essays on Poetry (University of Michigan Press, 2016).
For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email asbates@umich.edu-- we are eager to help ensure that this event is inclusive to you. Live, high quality auto-captions/transcriptions will be provided at the event.
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