Gerard Wozek’s blog, Spontaneous Me,is part of Substack’s Cultural Community. Weekly postings examine the art of travel and movement through a lens of creativity and intuition.

He is the author of A Little Wounded But On Fire,a book of poems published by Tebot Bach Press in 2022. His short story collection, Postcards from Heartthrob Town (Southern Tier Editions, 2006) is a sensual collage of short travel vignettes. His debut book of poems, Dervish (Gival Press, 2001), won the Gival Press Poetry Book Award. A hand bound chapbook,The Changeling’s Exile (Deep Wood Press, 2010), featuring original engravings by artist Chad Pastotnik, is available online in a limited edition.

Wozek contributed the text to Flutter and Spin,a poetry video created along with poet Kelsey Bryan-Zwick for the 2023 International Poetry Video Festival held in Los Angeles, California. The film took an Honorable Mention Award.

Along with filmmaker Mary Russell, Wozek has produced award winning poetry videos which have screened around the world. Most recently, he collaborated on the video poem, Aviary, which mixes magical realism with environmental plights. The film was juried into several film festivals including Ó Bhéal’s 13th International Poetry-Film Fest in Cork, Ireland, where it was shortlisted for the 2025 competition.

In 2020, Wozek was featured in the compilation, Closet Cases: Queers on What We Wear (Et Alia Press, 2020), edited by Megan Volpert. Wozek’s coming-of-age narrative: “History of My Underwear” deals with issues of strict identity conformity and compliance.

The Ekphrastic Writer, edited by Janee J. Baugher (McFarland Press, 2020), highlights two of Wozek’s original poems based on the visual work of Eva Gonzalès (“Girl with Cherries”) and Katsushika Hokusai (“A Peasant Crossing a Bridge”), as well as including his brief discourse on the craft of writing ekphrastically.

The Lockdown Haiku Project was completed in 2020 and is comprised of 21 black and white photographs taken by scholar Isaias Fanlo and 21 haiku written by Wozek—a total of 42 pieces—altogether they form an interdisciplinary, international call-and-response collaboration that articulates an immediate catharsis in these challenging days we are living. The duo's offering appears online in the Pendemic Literary Journal.

Wozek's poems will appear next year in the compilation, White Winged Doves: A Stevie Nicks Poetry Anthology, forthcoming from Madville Publishing.

Gerard Wozek embraced twenty-five years as a full-time Professor of English and Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts at Robert Morris University Illinois in Chicago.

He is currently living near the sea in Barcelona, Spain where he teaches an original writing workshop, An Atlas of Desire, at the Backstory Bookstore, and the monthly Spirit of Place Book Club at Alibri Books--both venues located in Barcelona.