Adrian Matejka was born in Nuremberg, Germany and grew up in Indianapolis, Indiana. He is a graduate of Indiana University and the MFA program at Southern Illinois University. He is the author of the Devil's Garden, which won the New York / New England Award and Mixology, a winner of the 2008 National Poetry Series. Mixology was also a finalist for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literature. His third collection, The Big Smoke, focuses on Jack Johnson, the first Black heavyweight champion of the world, and was awarded the 2014 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. Other works include Map to the Stars, Standing on the Verge / Maggot Brain (Feb. 2021), and Somebody Else Sold the World (Jul. 2021). Matejka teaches at Indiana University in Bloomington and served as Poet Laureate of Indiana for 2018-19.
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