{{Short description|American poet, editor, and publisher (born 1977)}} {{Infobox person | name = | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1977}} | birth_place = Santa Monica, California<ref name="auto2">Academy of American Poets: {{Cite web|url=https://poets.org/poet/stephen-motika|title=Stephen Motika|first=|last=|website=poets.org}}</ref> | death_date = | death_place = | nationality = | other_names = | occupation = Poet, editor, and publisher | education = Vassar, Brooklyn College<ref name="auto1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.zku-berlin.org/people/stephen-motika/|title=Stephen Motika | People - ZK/U Berlin|website=www.zku-berlin.org}}</ref> | alma_mater = | years_active = | known_for = Publisher of Nightboat Books | notable_works = | website = {{website|https://nightboat.org/}} }} '''Stephen Motika''' (born 1977 in Santa Monica, CA) is an American poet, editor, and publisher.
==Life and work== As of 2024, Motika is the director and publisher of Nightboat Books, a literary non-profit publisher based in Brooklyn, NY.<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://nightboat.org/bio/stephen-motika/|title=Stephen Motika}}</ref> Previously, he worked at Poets House in New York City from 2004 to 2017,<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Poetry Center {{!}} College of Liberal & Creative Arts |url=https://poetry.sfsu.edu/ |access-date=2024-01-19 |website=poetry.sfsu.edu}}</ref><ref name="auto2"/> where he was their Program Director.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.wesleyan.edu/writing/community/motika.html|title=motika, Writing at Wesleyan - Wesleyan University|website=www.wesleyan.edu}}</ref>
Motika’s first book of poems, ''Western Practice'', was published by Alice James Books in April 2012.<ref name="auto2"/> He is also the author of three poetry chapbooks: ''Arrival and At Mono'' (2007) and ''In the Madrones'' (2011) both published by Sona Books; and ''Private Archive'' (2016). Motika's work has appeared, amongst other places, in ''The National Post of Canada'', ''Another Chicago Magazine'', and ''The Common Review''.<ref name=":0"/>
Motika is the editor of Leland Hickman's ''Tiresias: The Collected Poems of Leland Hickman'' (2009) and, in 2017, he co-edited the book ''Dear Kathleen: On the Occasion of Kathleen Fraser’s 80th Birthday''.<ref name="auto"/>
''The Field'', his collaboration with visual artist Dianna Frid, was on view at Gallery 400 at the University of Illinois, Chicago, in December 2003.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://multifariousarray.blogspot.com/2008/03/stephen-motika-sue-nacey-peter.html|title=The Multifarious Array: Stephen Motika, Sue Nacey & Peter Spagnuolo|date=March 28, 2008}}</ref>
Motika has also worked as an educator and instructor at Naropa University and in the Stonecoast MFA Program at the University of Southern Maine.<ref name="auto1"/>
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==External links== *[https://nightboat.org/ Nightboat Books]. Publisher's homepage *[http://www.uic.edu/aa/college/gallery400/01-exhibit_pages/01_ate03_thefield-text.htm ''The Field''] features photos and information from Motika's collaboration with Dianna Frid.
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