Farid Matuk

Farid Matuk is the author of Moon Mirrored Indivisible (University of Chicago Press, 2025); Redolent (Singing Saw Press, 2021), made in collaboration with artist Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez and winner of the 2023 Anna Rabinowitz Award from Poetry Society of America; The Real Horse (University of Arizona Press, 2018); and This Is a Nice Neighborhood (Letter Machine Editions, 2010). 

Matuk is also the translator from the Spanish of The Hormone of Darkness: A Playlist (Graywolf, 2024) by the Peruvian poet Tilsa Otta and the co-translator of Juan Felipe Herrera’s Akrílica (Noemi Press, 2022). 

Matuk’s work has been supported by residencies from the Headlands Center for the Arts, a visiting Holloway Lectureship in the Practice of Poetry at the University of California, Berkeley, and a 2024 USA Fellowship from United States Artists.