Garrett Kalleberg was born in Brooklyn and lived in New York City most of his life. He currently lives in Vermont with his wife Elisabeth, and Luna and Sky.
Garrett writes, makes pictures, and leads Software Design at SageSure.
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Garrett’s books include Malilenas (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2009), Some Mantic Daemons (Futurepoem, New York, 2002), Psychological Corporations (Spuyten Duyvil, New York, 2002), and Limbic Odes (Heart Hammer, New York, 1997).
His poetry, reviews, and translations have appeared in various journals including Eleven Eleven, Brooklyn Rail, The Canary, Crowd, Damn the Caesars, Tragaluz (Mexico), Fence, Sulfur, First Intensity, Denver Quarterly, A.bacus, Aufgabe, Mandorla (Mexico), The Poetry Project Newsletter, and American Letters & Commentary, and in An Anthology of New (American) Poets (Talisman House, 1998).
Together with Heather Ramsdell and Ted MacLeod as Brooklyn Drama Club, Garrett’s theatrical work The Situation Room was produced for Collective Unconscious, New York, 2002, and at The Fringe Festival, New York, 2003.
Garrett edited and published the international online poetry and criticism journal The Transcendental Friend and the text-based audio CD imprint Immanent Audio from 1998 to 2002, giving (often first) voice to writers Anselm Berrigan, Laird Hunt, Eleni Sikelianos, Robert Archambeau, Kent Johnson, Stacy Doris, Pattie McCarthy, Dale Smith, Lisa Jarnot, Zhang Er, Pam Rehm, Heather Ramsdell, and many others.
His awards for poetry and critical writing include a grant from the New York Foundation for the Arts in 2011, a grant from Poets & Writers, two awards from the Academy of American Poets, and two grants from The Fund for Poetry.