Michael McGriff was born and raised in Coos Bay, Oregon. He cotranslated Tomas Tranströmer’s The Sorrow Gondola and is the editor of To Build My Shadow a Fire: The Poetry and Translations of David Wevill, as well as two poetry collections: Dismantling the Hills and Home Burial, a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice selection. He is the cofounder of Tavern Books, an independent publisher specializing in poetry in translation. McGriff lives in Austin, Texas.
Photograph by David Newkirk.
WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:
- New Year, an ipoem, in Winter 2016
- If You Are Water, poetry, in Poems of the Week: 2014–2015
- Highway 67 and Other Poems, poetry, in Fall 2015
- Relatives of the Dead, an ipoem, in Spring 2015
- Cosmology for the New Year, an ipoem, in Winter 2015
- Drinking at the Rusted Oyster, poetry, in Poems of the Week: 2011–2012
- Four Poems, poetry, in Fall 2011