Zawacki was educated at the
College of William & Mary and, as a
Rhodes Scholar, at the
University of Oxford and the
University of St Andrews. A former Fulbright Scholar to Australia, he earned his Ph.D. from the
Committee on Social Thought at the
University of Chicago. Zawacki is a member of
Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity. Along with
Andrew Joron, Zawacki is the literary co-executor of poet, novelist, and essayist
Gustaf Sobin. Zawacki's essays and reviews have appeared in national and international journals, among them the
Times Literary Supplement,
Boston Review,
Chicago Review,
How2,
Open Letter,
Australian Book Review,
New German Critique,
P.N. Review, and elsewhere. He edited
Afterwards: Slovenian Writing 1945-1995, the first comprehensive anthology of Slovenian poetry, fiction, and non-fiction to appear in the US, as well as editing and co-translating
Aleš Debeljak's new and selected poems,
Without Anesthesia (Persea Books, 2011). He is also the translator, from the French, of poet and psychoanalyst Sébastien Smirou's books
See About: Bestiary (La Presse /
Fence (magazine), 2017) and
My Lorenzo, published in 2012 by
Burning Deck with an introduction by
Jennifer Moxley. Zawacki has earned translation fellowships from the
National Endowment for the Arts, the Centre National du Livre, and French Voices, and has also translated
Abdellatif Laâbi,
Philippe Soupault, and
Anne Portugal. Translated into French by Sika Fakambi,
Georgia was published in France in 2009 by Éditions de l'Attente, who also brought out
Carnet Bartleby, in Fakambi's translation, in 2012. The French edition of Zawacki's first book,
Par Raison de brisants, translated by Antoine Cazé, was issued by Éditions Grèges in 2011 and was a finalist for Le Prix Nelly Sachs. Translated by Anne Portugal,
Sonnetssonnants appeared in a bilingual edition in the Collection américaine from Joca Seria. He is of Polish descent. ==Bibliography==