Zach Savich is the author of seven collections of poetry, including three from Black Ocean: Momently, Daybed, and Century Swept Brutal. He is also the author of the critical-memoir-for-performance A Field of Telephones, along with several chapbooks, books of prose, and collaborative works. His writing has appeared in journals and anthologies, including American Poetry Review, Best New Poets, Boston Review, Georgia Review, and Poetry Northwest. Savich teaches at the Cleveland Institute of Art and serves as coeditor of Rescue Press’s Open Prose Series. He is a 2025 recipient of a fellowship in Creative Writing from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Praise

“thrilling”
—Publishers Weekly

“moves and turns with the quickness of smoke”
—Jessica Binkley, Front Porch Journal

“the sensation is somewhat like that of discovering another step just where we thought the staircase was supposed to have ended”
—Walt Hunter, Pleiades

“a mind perpetually alert”
—Rachel Abramowitz, The Oxonian Review

“a master of repetition with a difference”
—Alissa Fleck, New Pages

“frenetic”
—Danniel Schoonebeek, The Rumpus

“genuinely interested in experiences that dwarf human consciousness”
—Tim Payne, The Journal

“bristles with desire…compressed yet expansive”
—Noah Eli Gordon, Rain Taxi

“hovers above as the ground roils”
—Daniel Moysenko, The Volta

“negotiates a necessary, if uneasy, compromise between the force of catastrophe and a music of his own”
—Lindsay Turner, Boston Review