His first book, American Linden, won the Tupelo Press Editors' Prize.

Luxbooks is also publishing a separate German language graphic novel version of his poem "The Pajamaist.

"[2] He was co-founder (with Brian Henry) and editor-in-chief of Verse Press, which has since become Wave Books and moved from Amherst, Massachusetts to Seattle, Washington.

[3] He is an editor for Wave Books, and teaches at Saint Mary's College of California.

In the fall of 2012, Zapruder's poetry was adapted and performed at Carnegie Hall with composition by Gabriel Kahane and Brooklyn Rider.