Discipline: Literature – poetry

Christopher Burawa

Discipline: Literature – poetry
Region: Clarksville, TN
MacDowell Fellowships: 2003
More: www.christopherburawa.com
Christopher Burawa is the author of The Small Mystery of Lapses, which won the 2006 Cleveland State University Press First Book Prize. He was born in Reykjavik, Iceland. He is a poet, translator, and arts entrepreneur. Burawa has a B.A. in English language and literature, M.A. in English language and literature with an emphasis on Old English prosody, and an M.F.A. in creative writing with an emphasis in poetry from Arizona State University. Among Burawa's honors are a MacDowell residency, the 2006 Witter Bynner Translation Fellowship at the Santa Fe Art Institute, a 2007 NEA Fellowship in Translation, a 2008 American-Scandinavian Foundation Creative Writing Research Fellowship, a 2014 Icelandic Writers Union Translation Fellowship, and a 2015 Bread Loaf Translators' Conference Fellowship. His chapbook of translations, Of The Same Mind: Poems by Jóhann Hjálmarsson, won the 2005 Toad Press International Chapbook Series prize.

Studios

Banks

Christopher Burawa worked in the Banks studio.

Banks, an ell on the north end of the Lodge dormitory, was first used as an artist’s studio in 1970. Since then, it has played host to an extraordinary list of writers working in several disciplines. In all seasons, Fellows have enjoyed the pastoral view through the French doors facing a field…

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