Zach Savich (born December 1, 1982, in Lansing, Michigan) is an American poet.
Savich is the author of the poetry collections Full Catastrophe Living (University of Iowa Press, 2009) which won the 2008 Iowa Poetry Prize; Annulments (University of Colorado Press, 2010) which won the 2010 Colorado Prize for Poetry; and The Firestorm (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2011) which won the 2010 Cleveland State University Poetry Center Open Competition. [1] His poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including A Public Space, Colorado Review, the Denver Quarterly, Gulf Coast, and Best New Poets 2008. [2]
Savich received a B.A. in English from the University of Washington and M.F.A.s from both the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.[3] He currently teaches at Shippensburg University [4] and serves as book review editor with The Kenyon Review.[5]