Gregory Pardlo is a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow in Poetry and has received fellowships and residencies from the NEA, the MacDowell Colony, the Seaside Institute, and the Cave Canem African American Poet’s Retreat. His poems and translations have appeared in Callaloo, Lyric, Painted Bride Quarterly, Ploughshares, Seneca Review, Volt, and elsewhere. His reviews have appeared in Black Issues Book Review and have been featured on NPR’s All Things Considered. His volume of translations from the Danish poet Niels Lyngsoe, Pencil of Rays and Spiked Mace, was published in 2004. He holds a MFA degree from New York University where he was a New York Times Fellow in poetry and is currently working on a Ph.D. in English at the Graduate Center, CUNY. His is first book, "Totem," was chosen by Brenda Hillman for the 2007 American Poetry Review/ Honickman Prize.