Michael Bazzett

Michael Bazzett is the author of The Echo Chamber (Milkweed Editions, 2021); The Interrogation (Milkweed Editions, 2017); Our Lands Are Not So Different (Horsethief Books, 2017); and You Must Remember This (Milkweed Editions, 2014), which received the 2014 Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry.

Bazzett is also the translator of If Today Were Tomorrow (Milkweed Editions, 2024), a collection of poems by Humberto Ak’abal, and of the Mayan creation epic, The Popol Vuh (Milkweed Editions, 2018).

Bazzett has been awarded the Bechtel Prize from Teachers & Writers Collaborative and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. He teaches at The Blake School and lives in Minneapolis.