Zach Savich is the author of the poetry collections Full Catastrophe Living (University of Iowa, 2009), Annulments (Center for Literary Publishing, 2010), The Firestorm (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2011), and Century Swept Brutal (Black Ocean, 2013), The Orchard Green and Every Color (Omnidawn, 2016), and Daybed (Black Ocean, 2018), as well as a book of lyrical prose, Events Film Cannot Withstand (Rescue, 2011), a memoir about cancer, teaching, and poetic friendship, Diving Makes the Water Deep (Rescue, 2016), and a chapbook, The Man Who Lost His Head (Omnidawn, 2011). His work has received the Iowa Poetry Prize, the Colorado Prize for Poetry, the CSU Poetry Center's Open Award, and Omnidawn's Chapbook Prize. In 2009, the Poetry Society of America included Savich in its New American Poets feature. Diving Makes the Water Deep was a finalist for the CLMP Firecracker Award and the Housatonic Book Award. His poems, essays, and book reviews have appeared widely in American Poetry Review, Boston Review, A Public Space, Mid-American Review, VOLT, jubilat, Colorado Review, and other journals, and in anthologies including Best New Poets, Privacy Policy: The Anthology of Surveillance Poetics, The Book of Scented Things, The Sonnets: Rewriting Shakespeare, and The New Census. His work has been featured on Verse Daily, Poetry Daily, and by the Academy of American Poets.
Originally from the Pacific Northwest, Savich received a BA in English from the University of Washington and MFAs from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and the MFA Program for Poets and Writers at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He has taught creative writing and literature courses at Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand; the University of Washington's Creative Writing Seminar in Rome; the University of Iowa; the University of Massachusetts, Amherst; the Iowa Summer Writers Festival; and Shippensburg University. Since 2013, he has taught in the BFA Program for Creative Writing at the University of the Arts, in Philadelphia. He has also worked extensively in community settings and with K-12 students, including through The Kenyon Review's Young Writers Workshop.
From 2010 to 2013, Savich served as book review editor for The Kenyon Review. He has also held editorial positions with Thermos Magazine, Iowa Review, and several limited-edition projects including Duets, a series of chapbooks pairing work by poets from the US and New Zealand. He is the co-editor of Rescue Press's Open Prose Series, which publishes one book of innovative fiction, nonfiction, or sui generis prose each year.
In 2017-18, Savich is teaching with the NEO-MFA Program via Cleveland State University and with the University of Iowa.
Originally from the Pacific Northwest, Savich received a BA in English from the University of Washington and MFAs from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and the MFA Program for Poets and Writers at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He has taught creative writing and literature courses at Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand; the University of Washington's Creative Writing Seminar in Rome; the University of Iowa; the University of Massachusetts, Amherst; the Iowa Summer Writers Festival; and Shippensburg University. Since 2013, he has taught in the BFA Program for Creative Writing at the University of the Arts, in Philadelphia. He has also worked extensively in community settings and with K-12 students, including through The Kenyon Review's Young Writers Workshop.
From 2010 to 2013, Savich served as book review editor for The Kenyon Review. He has also held editorial positions with Thermos Magazine, Iowa Review, and several limited-edition projects including Duets, a series of chapbooks pairing work by poets from the US and New Zealand. He is the co-editor of Rescue Press's Open Prose Series, which publishes one book of innovative fiction, nonfiction, or sui generis prose each year.
In 2017-18, Savich is teaching with the NEO-MFA Program via Cleveland State University and with the University of Iowa.
