Oliver Bendorf

Oliver Baez Bendorf is an American poet born in Iowa City in 1987. He holds an MFA in poetry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an MA in Library and Information Studies from the same university. His first book, The Spectral Wilderness, won the 2013 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize and was published by Kent State University Press. Mark Doty selected it. In 2016 he chose the winners of the Wick Poetry Center's undergraduate scholarship readings at Kent State. He is a CantoMundo fellow and has published Advantages of Being Evergreen (2019).