Oliver Baez Bendorf

Oliver Baez Bendorf (born June 21, 1987) is an American poet, essayist, scholar, and educator.

Oliver Baez Bendorf
Born (1987-06-21) June 21, 1987
Iowa City, Iowa, US
NationalityAmerican
EducationUniversity of Iowa (BA), University of Wisconsin-Madison (MFA) (MLIS)
GenrePoetry
Notable worksThe Spectral Wilderness (2015), Advantages of Being Evergreen (2019)
Website
www.oliverbaezbendorf.com

Life

Oliver Baez Bendorf was born on June 21, 1987,[1] in Iowa City, Iowa.[2] He received a BA from the University of Iowa in 2009. In 2013, he completed an MFA in poetry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he met his teachers Lynda Barry,[3] Quan Barry, Amaud Jamaul Johnson, Jesse Lee Kercheval, and Ronald Wallace.[4] In 2015, he received an MA in Library and Information Studies, also from the University of Wisconsin-Madison,[5] where he assisted with The Little Magazine Collection, one of the most extensive of its kind in the United States.[6][7] Bendorf is a fellow of the CantoMundo Poetry Workshop.

He has taught poetry at a selection of institutions including University of Wisconsin-Madison, 826DC, Madison Public Library, District of Columbia Public Schools, Mount Holyoke College, Wick Poetry Center, and elsewhere.[8]

His work has been featured in outlets including Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day,[9] American Poetry Review,[10] BOMB,[11] Black Warrior Review,[12] jubilat,[13] Poetry Magazine,[14] and Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics.[15] He has published essays[16] and comics poetry[17], in addition to poetry, and his poetry has been translated into Russian by Dmitry Kuzmin.[18]

His debut full-length collection, The Spectral Wilderness[19], was selected by Mark Doty for the 2013 Stan & Tom Wick Poetry Prize, and released by Kent State University Press in 2015.[20] His second collection, Advantages of Being Evergreen, was selected for the 2018 Open Book Poetry Competition from Cleveland State University Poetry Center, and was published in September 2019.[21]

Bendorf is a transgender man, and has used his work to discuss gender identity and transition, sometimes in humorous ways.[22][23] He is of German, Southern Italian, and Puerto Rican (Afro-Taíno and Spanish) ancestry.[24]

He is an Assistant Professor of English at Kalamazoo College in Michigan.[25] In 2019, Bendorf was announced as a faculty member at the 2019 Conference on Poetry at The Frost Place.[26] In 2020, Bendorf was awarded the Betty Berzon Emerging Writer Award from Publishing Triangle, presented to an LGBTQ writer who has shown exceptional talent and promise.[27][28]

Awards and honors

Works
  • Book: Advantages of Being Evergreen. Cleveland State University Poetry Center. 2019. ISBN 9781880834008.
  • Book: The Spectral Wilderness: Poems. Kent State University Press. 2015. ISBN 9781606352113.
  • Poem: Bone Dust (Poetry)
  • Poem: Settler/Unsettled (BOMB )
  • Poem: ghost ship novena inside a year-long funeral (BOAAT Journal)
  • Poem: Ritual (Black Warrior Review)
  • Poem: Evergreen (Academy of American Poets)
  • Visual poems: Folio (Adirondack Review)

References
  1. "Bendorf, Oliver, 1987-". Library of Congress. Retrieved June 7, 2017.
  2. "Oliver Baez Bendorf". Oliver Baez Bendorf. Retrieved 2019-04-02.
  3. "An Interview With Oliver Baez Bendorf | Poets & Writers". www.pw.org. Retrieved 2017-06-07.
  4. "Graduate Creative Writing Faculty". creativewriting.wisc.edu. Retrieved 2019-11-29.
  5. Mears, Jaime (February 22, 2017). "Assembling the Whole: An Interview with Librarian|Artist Oliver Baez Bendorf". The Signal. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2017-06-07.
  6. "Little Magazine Interview Index – UW Digital Collections". Retrieved 2019-04-02.
  7. "The Oliver Bendorf Exit Interview". Little Magazine Collection. Retrieved 2019-04-02.
  8. "Teaching". Oliver Baez Bendorf. 2019-10-07. Retrieved 2019-10-07.
  9. Baez Bendorf, Oliver (2017-12-18). "Evergreen". Evergreen. Retrieved 2018-04-17.
  10. "American Poetry Review - Oliver Baez Bendorf - "River I Dream About"". American Poetry Review. Retrieved 2019-04-02.
  11. "BOMB 147 / Spring 2019". shop.bombmagazine.org. Retrieved 2019-04-02.
  12. "Ritual by Oliver Baez Bendorf | BWR". BWR. 2018-01-11. Retrieved 2018-04-17.
  13. "Number 24 - jubilat". www.jubilat.org. Retrieved 2017-06-07.
  14. Magazine, Poetry (2019-04-02). "Bone Dust by Oliver Baez Bendorf". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 2019-04-02.
  15. "The Body of the Poem: On Transgender Poetry - Los Angeles Review of Books". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 2017-06-07.
  16. Bendorf, Oliver. "After I Came Out As A Transgender Man, I Was Asked If It Felt Like I Had Died". BuzzFeed. Retrieved 2018-01-04.
  17. "Spotlight: A Poetry Comics Discussion". The Rumpus.net. 2016-04-11. Retrieved 2018-01-04.
  18. Бендорф, Оливер. "Воздух" Квирные факты об овощах http://www.litkarta.ru/projects/vozdukh/issues/2018-36/bendorf/ Квирные факты об овощах Check |url= value (help). Retrieved 2019-09-24. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  19. "The Spectral Wilderness - The Kent State University Press". www.kentstateuniversitypress.com. Retrieved 2017-06-08.
  20. "2013 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize Awarded to Oliver Bendorf | Kent State University". www.kent.edu. Retrieved 2017-06-08.
  21. "2018 Book Contest Results". Cleveland State University Poetry Center. Retrieved 2019-04-02.
  22. Bendorf, Oliver (January 20, 2014). "After I Came Out As A Transgender Man, I Was Asked If It Felt Like I Had Died". BuzzFeed. Retrieved June 7, 2017.
  23. Rodriguez, Mathew (September 23, 2016). "In Oliver Bendorf's 'Top Surgery' zine, a trans man uses humor to recover — and to educate". Mic.com. Retrieved June 7, 2017.
  24. "Settler/Unsettled by Oliver Baez Bendorf - BOMB Magazine". bombmagazine.org. Retrieved 2019-10-07.
  25. "English: Faculty and Staff. Kalamazoo College". reason.kzoo.edu. Retrieved 2018-08-29.
  26. "Meet the Faculty of 2018 The Frost Place Conference on Poetry". The Frost Place. 2019-02-20. Retrieved 2019-04-02.
  27. "Publishing Triangle Awards Finalists, Yiyun Li's Virtual Book Club, and More". Poets & Writers. 2020-03-17. Retrieved 2020-03-18.
  28. "Oliver Baez Bendorf Wins Betty Berzon Emerging Writer Award". The Publishing Triangle. 2020-03-16. Retrieved 2020-03-18.
  29. "Publishing Triangle Awards Finalists, Yiyun Li's Virtual Book Club, and More". Poets & Writers. 2020-03-17. Retrieved 2020-03-18.
  30. "2018 Book Contest Results". Cleveland State University Poetry Center. Retrieved 2018-08-29.
  31. "WI Institute for Creative Writing Fellowships". WI Institute for Creative Writing. Retrieved 2017-06-07.
  32. Team, Edit (2016-03-15). "The Publishing Triangle Award Finalists Announced". Lambda Literary. Retrieved 2017-06-09.
  33. "Oliver Bendorf, selected by Natalie Diaz - Poetry Society of America". www.poetrysociety.org. Retrieved 2017-06-07.
  34. "Bear Deluxe Magazine". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 2017-06-07.
  35. "2013 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize Awarded to Oliver Bendorf | Kent State University". www.kent.edu. Retrieved 2017-06-07.
  36. Daily, Verse. "About Oliver Bendorf and The Journal". www.versedaily.org. Retrieved 2017-06-07.
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