Jaswinder Bolina’s most recent book English as a Second Language and Other Poems (Copper Canyon Press 2023) was awarded the 2025 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. His previous books include his debut essay collection Of Color (McSweeney’s 2020); The 44th of July (Omnidawn 2019), which was long-listed for the 2019 PEN America Open Book Award; Phantom Camera (New Issues Press 2013), winner of the 2012 Green Rose Prize in Poetry; Carrier Wave (CLP 2007), winner of the 2006 Colorado Prize for Poetry; and the digital chapbook The Tallest Building in America (Floating Wolf Quarterly 2014). Phantom Camera is also available in syndicated international edition from Hachette India.
Bolina’s poems have been featured in The Best American Poetry series and have appeared in Poetry, The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, Colorado Review, Gettysburg Review, Ploughshares, and other journals. His essays can be found at The Washington Post, The Paris Review, Shenandoah, The Believer, Poetry Foundation dot org, and elsewhere.
He teaches on the faculty of the MFA program in creative writing at the University of Miami.
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