Craig Dworkin

Craig Dworkin is an American poet and Professor of English at the University of Utah.

Dworkin earned his B.A. from Stanford University and his Ph.D from University of California, Berkeley. He is a poet, critic, editor, and currently a professor at the University of Utah.

Dworkin has written a number of books of poetry, including The Pine-Woods Notebook (Kenning Editions, 2019), Def (Information As Material, 2018), Twelve Erroneous Displacements and a Fact (Information As Material, 2016), and Alkali (Counterpath Press, 2015). Dworkin is the author of three scholarly monographs: Dictionary Poetics: Toward a Radical Lexicography (Fordham University Press, 2020); No Medium (MIT Press, 2013), in which he discusses works that are blank, erased, clear, or silent; and Reading the Illegible (Northwestern University Press, 2003). Edited collections include Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing, co-edited with Kenneth Goldsmith (Northwestern University Press, 2011), The Sound of Poetry / The Poetry of Sound, co-edited with Marjorie Perloff (University of Chicago Press, 2009), and The Consequence of Innovation: 21st Century Poetics (Roof Books, 2008). He has published articles in such diverse journals as October, Grey Room, Contemporary Literature, PMLA, and Critical Inquiry.

Dworkin runs Eclipse, an online archive focusing on digital facsimiles of radical small-press writing from the last quarter of the 20th century.