Gregory Pardlo

Gregory Pardlo
Pardlo at the 2015 Texas Book Festival.
Born (1968-11-24) November 24, 1968
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
EducationRutgers University, Camden (BA)
New York University (MFA)
Columbia University (MFA)
City University of New York
GenrePoetry
Notable awardsPulitzer Prize for Poetry

Gregory Pardlo (born November 24, 1968) is an American poet, writer, and professor. His book Digest won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. His poems, reviews, and translations have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Callaloo, Poet Lore, Harvard Review, Ploughshares, and on National Public Radio. His work has been praised for its “language simultaneously urban and highbrow… snapshots of a life that is so specific it becomes universal.”