Jan Wagner (Hamburg, 1971) is a poet, essayist and translator of Anglo-American poetry, He has won numerous awards including the Leipzig Book Fair Prize (2015, first time ever awarded to a poet) and the highest award in German literature, the Georg-Büchner-Prize (2017). He was a co-publisher of the international "literature box" Die Aussenseite des Elementes (“The Outside of the Element“) until 2003. With poet Björn Kuhligk he edited the comprehensive anthology of young German language poets "Lyrik von Jetzt. 74 Stimmen" (“Poetry of Now. 74 voices“, 2003) and its sequel "Lyrik von Jetzt zwei. 50 Stimmen" (Berlin 2008). He has published six poetry collections since 2001 and two books of essays. Wagner’s poetry has been translated into more than thirty languages including two English editions: "Self-Portrait With a Swarm of Bees" (Arc, U.K., 2015, translated by Iain Galbraith) and "The Art of Topiary" (translated by David Keplinger, Milkweed Editions, 2017). He currently resides in Berlin.
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