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