Adrian Matejka is an American poet and author of The Devil's Garden and Mixology.
His most decorated work is The Big Smoke, which won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and was nominated for the National Book Award for Poetry and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
Indiana State Poet Laureate for the 2018–2019 term, since May 2022, he has been the editor of Poetry magazine.
[1] Born in Nuremberg, Germany, while his family served in the U.S. military, Adrian Matejka was raised in Indianapolis, Indiana, in the United States.
His work has appeared in literary journals and magazines including The American Poetry Review, Callaloo,[6] Crab Orchard Review, Gulf Coast, Indiana Review, Poetry, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, and in anthologies including From the Fishouse (Persea Books, 2009) [7] and The Best American Poetry 2010 (Scribner, 2010).