Adrian Matejka

Adrian Matejka (born in Nuremberg, Germany) is an African-American poet. He graduated from Southern Illinois University Carbondale with an MFA in Creative Writing. He has received fellowships from the Cave Canem Workshop, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Lannan Foundation, and United States Artists. He is the author of The Devil's Garden and Mixology. His third collection, The Big Smoke, is about Jack Johnson and was a finalist for the 2013 National Book Award and the 2014 Pulitzer Prize and won an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. His newest collection, Map to the Stars, was published by Penguin in 2017. His work has appeared in literary journals and magazines including American Poetry Review, Callaloo, Crab Orchard Review, Gulf Coast, Indiana Review, Poetry, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, and in anthologies including From the Fishouse (Persea Books, 2009) and The Best American Poetry 2010 (Scribner, 2010). He teaches literature and creative writing at Indiana University. He lives in Bloomington, Indiana with his wife, poet Stacey Lynn Brown, and their daughter.

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• Honors and awards
• Published works
• References

Honors and awards

2015 United States Artists Simon Fellowship

2014 Lannan Literary Fellowship

2014 Guggenheim Fellowship

2014 Anisfield-Wolf Award

2014 Pulitzer Prize, Finalist

2013 National Book Award, Finalist

2011 Lannan Foundation Residency Fellowship

2009 Illinois Arts Council

2008 National Poetry Series

2002 New York / New England Award

Published works

Full-Length Poetry Collections

Map to the Stars. Penguin Group USA. 2017. ISBN 978-0-143-13057-4. 

The Big Smoke. Penguin Group USA. 2013. ISBN 978-0-143-12372-9. 

Mixology. Penguin Group USA. 2009. ISBN 978-0-14-311583-0. 

The Devil's Garden. Alice James Books. 2003. ISBN 978-1-882295-41-8. 

Anthology Publications

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