His collection The Performance of Becoming Human won the 2016 National Book Award.
[4] Born in 1974 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the son of Chilean immigrants to the United States,[5] Borzutzky in his work often addresses immigration, worker exploitation, political corruption, and economic disparity.
[6] He received a BA degree from the University of Pittsburgh in 1997 and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2000.
[1] He is an Associate Professor of English and Latino Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
[7] His 2018 collection Lake Michigan was a finalist for the Griffin International Poetry Prize.