Peter Balakian

Peter Balakian is the author of nine books of poems, including Ozone Journal, which won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for poetry. His work The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America’s Response, won the 2005 Raphael Lemkin Prize and was a New York Times Notable Book and national Best Seller. His memoir, Black Dog of Fate won the 1998 PEN/Martha Albrand Prize for the Art of the Memoir and was the best book of the year for the New York Times, the LA Times, and Publisher’s Weekly.

He is the recipient of many awards and prizes and civic citations including a Presidential Medal and the Moves Khorenatsi Medal from the Republic of Armenia. His works have appeared in a dozen languages including Armenian, Bulgarian, French, Dutch, Greek, German, Hebrew, Russian, and Turkish.

Poetry Collections

No Sign, 2022
Ozone Journal, 2015 – Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Ziggurat, 2010
June-tree: New and Selected Poems, 1974–2000, 2001
Dyer’s Thistle, 1996
Reply From Wilderness Island, 1988
Sad Days of Light, 1983
Father Fisheye, 1979

Prose & Memoirs

Vise and Shadow: Essays on the Lyric Imagination, Poetry, Art, and Culture, 2015
The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America’s Response, 2003
Black Dog of Fate: A Memoir, 1997
Theodore Roethke’s Far Fields, 1989