Magdalena Zurawski's novel The Bruise (FC2/University of Alabama Press, 2008) received both a 2008 Lambda Award and the 2007 Ronald Sukenick-American Book Review Innovative Fiction Prize. Her poetry collection Companion Animal (Litmus Press, 2015) won the Norma Faber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America. Her most recent collection, The Tiniest Muzzle Sings Songs of Freedom, came out from Wave Books in 2019. The Operating System released Zurawski’s poem/essay Don’t Be Scared as a chapbook in 2019 and her essay "Being Human is an Occult Practice" was published by Ugly Duckling Presse in 2020.
Zurawski was a 2022-23 Fulbright Scholar in Poland, where she traced family war histories for her current book project and began translating poet Miron Bialoszewski's prose work, Heart Attack. She teaches in the creative writing program at the University of Georgia.
