11 Facts About Andrew Joron

Andrew Joron was born on March 6,1955 and is an American writer of experimental poetry, speculative fiction, and lyrical and critical essays.

In fall 2014, Andrew Joron joined the faculty of the Creative Writing Department at San Francisco State University.

Andrew Joron has won the Rhysling Award three times: for Best Long Poem in 1980 and 1986, and for Best Short Poem in 1978; and the Gertrude Stein Award twice, in 1996 and 2006.

Andrew Joron is the translator, from the German, of the Marxist-Utopian philosopher Ernst Bloch's Literary Essays which was published by Stanford University Press in 1998.

Andrew Joron is the translator of The Perpetual Motion Machine by the German fantasist Paul Scheerbart.

Andrew Joron belonged to the circle of Surrealist poet Philip Lamantia in San Francisco from the late '90s until Lamantia's death in 2005.

Andrew Joron later served as co-editor, with Garrett Caples and Nancy Joyce Peters, of the Collected Poems of Philip Lamantia, published by University of California Press.

Andrew Joron has written an essay, "The Theremin in My Life," on the relation between his literary and musical activities.

In 2017, Andrew Joron performed on theremin in Blood of the Air, Sheldon Brown's composition based on the pitch patterns of poet Philip Lamantia's voice.

In 2019, Andrew Joron performed on theremin with Will Alexander on piano and Anne Waldman reading her poetry at the Entanglements conference on science and poetry held at Wake Forest University in North Carolina.

In 2022, Andrew Joron returned to the science-fiction genre with the publication of O0 by Black Square Editions.