Rimas Uzgiris

Rimas Uzgiris is a Lithuanian/American poet and translator. His work has appeared in Barrow Street, Hudson Review, Rattle, Poetry Daily, The Poetry Review and elsewhere, and was twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize. He is the author of North of Paradise, and Tarp [Between] (poems translated into Lithuanian, shortlisted for best poetry book of the year), translator of eight poetry collections from Lithuanian, including Caravan Lullabies by Ilzė Butkutė (A Midsummer Night’s Press), Then What by Gintaras Grajauskas (Bloodaxe), Now I Understand by Marius Burokas (Parthian), The Moon is a Pill by Aušra Kaziliūnaitė (Parthian), Vagabond Sun by Judita Vaičiūnaitė (Shearsman), and Voices of Spring by Maironis (Maironis Museum), as well as the Venice Biennale Golden Lion winning opera Sun and Sea. He was educated at UCSD, UW-Madison, Rutgers-Newark, with a Ph.D. in philosophy and an MFA in creative writing. Recipient of a Fulbright Scholar Grant, a NEA Translation Fellowship, he teaches at Vilnius University in the Departent of Translation Studies and the Department of English Philology.