Matthew Zapruder

Matthew Zapruder
Zapruder at the 2017 Texas Book Festival
Born1967 (age 58–59)
Washington, D.C., United States
Alma materAmherst College
University of California, Berkeley
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Writing career
GenrePoetry
Notable awards2007 William Carlos Williams Award

Matthew Zapruder (1967) is an American poet, editor, translator, and professor.

His second poetry collection, The Pajamaist, won the 2007 William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America, and was chosen by Library Journal as one of the top ten poetry volumes of 2006. His first book, American Linden, won the Tupelo Press Editors' Prize.

Life

Zapruder graduated from Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School in 1985,[1] then received his B.A. in Russian literature from Amherst College, his M.A. in Slavic languages from the University of California, Berkeley, and his M.F.A. from the University of Massachusetts Amherst College of Humanities and Fine Arts.[2][3]

He was co-founder (with Brian Henry) and editor-in-chief of Verse Press, which has since become Wave Books and moved from Amherst, Massachusetts, to Seattle, Washington. Matthew Zapruder and Joshua Beckman, who became friends when Beckman performed a reading in Amherst, are co-editors of Wave Books.[2]

In 2003, he was a James Merrill House Fellow.[4] In 2007, he was a writer-in-residence with the Lannan Foundation in Marfa, Texas.[5][6] In 2011, he was a Guggenheim Fellow.[7] He won the Tupelo Press Editors' Prize[8] and the 2008 May Sarton Poetry Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[9]

Luxbooks published a German-language graphic novel version of his poem "The Pajamaist", translated by Ron Winkler and illustrated by Martina Hoffman.[10] In the fall of 2012, Zapruder's poetry was adapted and performed at Carnegie Hall with composition by Gabriel Kahane and Brooklyn Rider.[11]

His work has appeared in the Boston Review,[12] The Believer,[13] BOMB,[14] McSweeney's,[15] jubilat,[16] Conduit,[17] the Harvard Review,[18] The New Republic,[19] The New Yorker,[20] The Paris Review,[21] and Narrative Magazine.[22]

He taught at New York University, The New School,[23] the University of Houston,[24] the University of California, Berkeley, and at the Juniper Summer Writing Institute at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.[25][26][3] He teaches at Saint Mary's College of California[27] and the Low Residency MFA Program at the University of California, Riverside.[28]

He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.[29] He is the brother of musician Michael Zapruder[30] and writer Alexandra Zapruder, and grandson of Abraham Zapruder.[31] He is the guitarist in the band The Figments.[32]

Published works

Full-length poetry

  • American Linden (Tupelo Press, 2002) ISBN 9780971031098
  • The Pajamaist (Copper Canyon Press, 2006) ISBN 9781619320666
  • Come On All You Ghosts (Copper Canyon Press, 2010) ISBN 9781556593222
  • Sun Bear (Copper Canyon Press, 2014) ISBN 9781556594632
  • Father's Day (Copper Canyon Press, 2019) ISBN 978-1-55659-578-3
  • I Love Hearing Your Dreams (Charles Scribner's Sons, 2024) ISBN 978-1-6680-5980-7

Nonfiction

Memoir

Translations

  • Secret Weapon: The Late Poems of Eugen Jebeleanu (co-translated with Radu Ioanid, Coffee House Press, 2008) ISBN 978-1-56689-206-3

Anthology contributions

Edited anthologies

  • The Best American Poetry 2022 (co-edited with David Lehman, Charles Scribner's Sons, 2022) ISBN 978-1-9821-8668-5

References

  1. ↑ "About the Author: Come On All You Ghosts by Matthew Zapruder '89". Amherst College. October 2011. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  2. 1 2 Teicher, Craig Morgan (September 8, 2008). "Joshua Beckman and Matthew Zapruder". Publishers Weekly. Archived from the original on 2025-11-14. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  3. 1 2 "Matthew Zapruder". Saint Mary's College of California. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. ↑ "Writer-in-Residence Testimonies". James Merrill House. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  5. ↑ "Matthew Zapruder". Lannan Foundation. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  6. ↑ "Open House 2007". The Chinati Foundation. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  7. ↑ "Matthew J. Zapruder". Guggenheim Fellowship. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  8. ↑ "Matthew Zapruder". Academy of American Poets. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  9. ↑ "Young Poets Recognized by the American Academy of Arts & Sciences". American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 2008-12-15. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  10. ↑ Zapruder, Matthew (June 2010). "Interview | Ballet's Magic Kingdom by Professor Stanley Rabinowitz". Amherst College. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  11. ↑ Smith, Steve (2012-10-28). "Boundaries? Don't Bother". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  12. ↑ "Matthew Zapruder". Boston Review. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  13. ↑ "Matthew Zapruder". Believer Magazine. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  14. ↑ "Matthew Zapruder". BOMB Magazine. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  15. ↑ "Matthew Zapruder". McSweeney's Internet Tendency. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  16. ↑ Jebeleanu, Eugen. "Late Gallop". jubilat. Translated by Zapruder, Matthew. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  17. ↑ "Issue 8". Conduit. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  18. ↑ "Matthew Zapruder Archives". Harvard Review. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  19. ↑ Zapruder, Matthew (April 3, 2006). "First Time, Long Time". The New Republic. ISSN 0028-6583. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  20. ↑ "Matthew Zapruder". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  21. ↑ "Matthew Zapruder". The Paris Review. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  22. ↑ "Matthew Zapruder". Narrative Magazine. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  23. ↑ Dallal, Carolina (2002-12-03). "Poet Matthew Zapruder '89 considers time well spent". The Amherst Student. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  24. ↑ Toffoli, Marissa B. (2011-09-26). "Interview With Writer Matthew Zapruder". Words With Writers. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  25. ↑ "Juniper Summer Writing Institute at UMass Amherst Celebrates its 15th Year, June 17-24". UMass Amherst. February 13, 2018. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  26. ↑ "Matthew Zapruder". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 6 September 2025.
  27. ↑ "Matthew Zapruder". Saint Mary's College. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  28. ↑ "Faculty and Staff". Palm Desert Low-Residency MFA. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  29. ↑ "5 Questions with Matthew Zapruder, Author of STORY OF A POEM: A Memoir". City Lights. April 18, 2023.
  30. ↑ Pinkmountain, Scott (Summer 2010). "Poems Could Be Pop: An Interview with Michael Zapruder". Poetry Society of America. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  31. ↑ Arsenault, Kerri (2016-11-10). "Interview with a Gatekeeper: Wave Books' Matthew Zapruder". Literary Hub. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  32. ↑ Roderick, Dave (2014-04-30). "The Rumpus Late Nite Poetry Show: Matthew Zapruder". The Rumpus. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
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