John Balaban, author of Passing through a Gate (Copper Canyon Press, 2024), a collection of poems, essays, and translations, has written numerous books of poetry, as well as fiction, nonfiction, and Vietnamese translations, and his work has been awarded the Academy of American Poets’ Lamont Prize, a National Poetry Series selection, and two nominations for the National Book Award. His Locusts at the Edge of Summer: New and Selected Poems won the 1998 William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. Balaban lives with his wife and daughter in Raleigh, North Carolina, where he teaches at North Carolina State University.
Photograph by Carolla Clift.
WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:
- The Goodbyes, poetry, in Winter 2021
- School’s Out, a memoir, in Stories of the Week: 2019–2020
- Ca Dao, a narrative outloud - audio, in Spring 2019
- Why I Was in Vietnam, a memoir, in Stories of the Week: 2016–2017
- John Barth, Undergraduate Academic Adviser, an essay, in Stories of the Week: 2015–2016
- The Singer with a Bad Voice, poetry, in Poems of the Week: 2010–2011
- Four Poems, poetry, in Fall 2010
- Best Advice, a feature, in Winter 2010