Zach Savich is the author of the poetry collections Full Catastrophe Living (2009), Annulments (2010), and The Firestorm (2011), as well as a book of prose, Events Film Cannot Withstand (2011). His work has won the Iowa Poetry Prize, the Colorado Prize for Poetry, and the Cleveland State University Poetry Center's Open Competition, among other honors. He teaches at the University of Arts, in Philadelphia, and co-edits Rescue Press's Open Prose Series. 

Praise

“thrilling”
—Publishers Weekly

“moves and turns with the quickness of smoke”
—Jessica Binkley, Front Porch Journal

“the sensation is somewhat like that of discovering another step just where we thought the staircase was supposed to have ended”
—Walt Hunter, Pleiades

“a mind perpetually alert”
—Rachel Abramowitz, The Oxonian Review

“a master of repetition with a difference”
—Alissa Fleck, New Pages

“frenetic”
—Danniel Schoonebeek, The Rumpus

“genuinely interested in experiences that dwarf human consciousness”
—Tim Payne, The Journal

“bristles with desire…compressed yet expansive”
—Noah Eli Gordon, Rain Taxi

“hovers above as the ground roils”
—Daniel Moysenko, The Volta

“negotiates a necessary, if uneasy, compromise between the force of catastrophe and a music of his own”
—Lindsay Turner, Boston Review