Jan Wagner (born 18 October 1971) is a German poet, essayist and translator, recipient of the Georg Büchner Prize and Leipzig Book Fair Prize.

Wagner was born in Hamburg,[1] and grew up north of it, in the small town of Ahrensburg in Schleswig-Holstein.

[2] In 2008, he was Max Kade German Writer in Residence at Oberlin College.

[3] In 2001, his first volume of poetry Probebohrung im Himmel was published.

[2] Wagner is also a translator of English-language poetry (Charles Simic, James Tate, Simon Armitage, Matthew Sweeney and others), a freelance reviewer (Frankfurter Rundschau and others) and until 2003 co-editor of the international literature box "The Outside of the Element".