Otto Vock
is a Teaching Artist, Poet, and Tinkerer
Available to book for Workshop and Performances, Writing Consultations, and Custome Keyboard Building Services
Performing at Jersey City’s Book Festival Summer 2019
About
Otto Vock is a Jewish Non-Binary poet and educator from Jersey City, NJ, now residing in Somerville. Their poetry work has previously appeared in The Offing, The Plum Creek Review, and in a self-published chapbook called A Boy Pulls Out His Rib and Uses it for Lipstick. They currently teach creative writing courses as Grub Street as an instructor. Otto has taught poetry and art residencies in locations from Ohio to NYC with ages ranging from third graders to college seniors and beyond. Their poetry-related social media and curriculum projects have been viewed and used worldwide. They’re the primary author of the companion curriculum for Phil Kaye’s debut book, Date & Time, made in partnership with Button Poetry and Project VOICE. They also love to build and modify mechanical keyboards and on the weekends work food shifts assembling sandos on the fly!