Literary Festival, among others. He is a Teaching Fellow at Columbia University. In 2016, Pardlo accepted a tenure-track faculty position with the English department at his alma mater, Rutgers University-Camden. He has previously taught at Columbia University, George Washington University, Medgar Evers College, The New School University, John Jay College, Hunter College, and NYU. Awards and honors 2015 Winner, Pulitzer Prize for poetry for Digest 2014 Selection, The Best American Poetry 2014 for "Wishing Well" 2010 Selection, The Best American Poetry 2010 for "Written by Himself" 2008 Finalist, Essence Magazine Literary Award in Poetry for Totem 2008 Selection, Coldfront Magazine Best First Books of 2007 for Totem 2008 Nominee, Pushcart Prize 2007 Winner, American Poetry Review / Honickman First Book Prize in Poetry for Totem 2007 Finalist, National Poetry Series for Totem 2007 Semifinalist, Academy of American Poets Walt Whitman Award for Totem 2005 Finalist, Cave Cavem Book Prize 2004 Winner, Lotos Club Foundation Award for Creative Writing 2003 Nominee, Pushcart Prize 2001 Honorable Mention, New Millennium Writings Prize Published works Full-length poetry collections Totem (Copper Canyon Press, 2007), Digest (Four Way Books, 2014), Memoir Air Traffic: A Memoir of Ambition and Manhood in America (Knopf, 2018), Translations Pencil of Rays and Spiked Mace (from the Danish of Niels Lyngsø; BookThug, 2004), Anthologized writings “Written by Himself”, The Best American Poetry 2010 (Scribner, 2010) “Marginalia”, So Much Things to Say: 100 Poets from the First Ten Years of the Calabash International Literary Festival (Akashic Books, 2010) “Double Dutch”, From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems that Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Syncopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain Sound Great (Persea Press, 2009) “Man Reading in Bed by a Window with Bugs”, Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry (University of Georgia Press, 2009) “Winter After the Strike”, Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem’s First Decade (University of Michigan Press, 2006) “Arsonist” and “Future as Evaporation”, Role Call: A Generational Anthology of Social and Political Black Literature and Art (Third World Press, 2002) “Harvest: A Line Drawing”, Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam (Three Rivers Press, 2001) Selected prose “Revisiting the Racial Mountain” (PEN American Center, 2010) “A Way of No Way: Toward Constructing a Black Male Poetic” (Painted Bride Quarterly #75, 2006) "'Hurrah for Schoelcher!'" (Drunken Boat 20, 2014) References External links Gregory Pardlo website Tammy Paolino, "Poems, perspective and a Pulitzer", Courier-Post, June 12, 2015 Erica Wright,