Born in
Nuremberg, Germany, while his family served in the U.S. military, Adrian Matejka was raised in
Indianapolis, Indiana, in the United States. the
Lannan Foundation, the
National Endowment for the Arts, and
United States Artists. to read from his Pulitzer nominated book
The Big Smoke. He is the author of ''The Devil's Garden
and Mixology
. His third collection, The Big Smoke
, is about Jack Johnson and was a finalist for the 2013 National Book Award and the 2014 Pulitzer Prize and won an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. His latest collection, Map to the Stars'', was published by Penguin in 2017. His work has appeared in literary journals and magazines including
The American Poetry Review,
Callaloo,
Crab Orchard Review,
Gulf Coast,
Indiana Review,
Poetry,
Ploughshares,
Prairie Schooner, and in anthologies including
From the Fishouse (Persea Books, 2009) and
The Best American Poetry 2010 (Scribner, 2010). He teaches literature and creative writing at
Indiana University, and was the
Indiana State Poet Laureate for 2018 and 2019. In 2022, he was named editor of
Poetry magazine. ==Honors and awards==