Geoffrey Nutter

Author of six books: A Summer Evening (winner of the Colorado Prize, 2001); Water’s Leaves & Other Poems (winner of the Verse Prize, 2005); Christopher Sunset (winner of the 2011 Sheila Motton Book Award); The Rose of January (Wave Books, 2013); Cities At Dawn (Wave Books, 2016), and Giant Moth Perishes (Wave Books, 2021) and his work has also appeared in many journals and anthologies, including Best American Poetry, Granta, Fence, and New York Review of Books. Geoffrey studied poetry at the University of Iowa Writer’s Workshop, where he was awarded the Academy of American Poets Prize by Mark Strand. He has collaborated with many artists, including the composers Brent Arnold and Brandon Scott Rumsey. He recently traveled in China, visiting universities and schools and giving lectures, workshops, and readings as a participant in the Sun Yat-sen University Writers’ Residency. Geoffrey’s poems have been translated into Spanish, French, Russian, and Mandarin. Soir d’été, a bilingual edition of his poems translated into French by poets Molly Lou Freeman and Julien Marcland, was recently published in France. SLC, 2024–