Benjamin Paloff

Benjamin Paloff is the author, most recently, of Worlds Apart: Genre and the Ethics of Representing Concentration Camps, Ghettos, and Besieged Cities (2025), and Bakhtin's Adventure: An Essay on Life without Meaning (2025). His earlier books include The Politics: Poems (2011), And His Orchestra: Poems (2015), Lost in the Shadow of the Word: Space, Time, and Freedom in Interwar Eastern Europe (2016), and many translations from Polish, Czech, Russian, and Yiddish. His poems have appeared in Conduit, Fence, Guesthouse, The Paris Review, The New York Review of Books, and others, and he has received grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, PEN/America, and the Stanford Humanities Center. He teaches at the University of Michigan.