recent is The Glass Age (Alice James 2007). An earlier book, Goest,
was a finalist for the 2004 National Book Award, and other volumes
have won the Iowa Poetry Prize, the San Francisco State Poetry
Center Book Award, Sun and Moon’s New American Writing Award,
and the National Poetry Series. Her next book, Ours, will be
published by the University of California Press in 2008. Also due out
in 2008 is American Hybrid, a Norton anthology she has co-edited
with David St. John. A 2006 Guggenheim Fellow, she has also
received grants from the Creative Capital Foundation, the Shifting
Foundation, and the Camargo Foundation and has been awarded two
Pushcart Prizes. She’s also a translator of contemporary French
poetry, prose, and art criticism; her translation of Jean Fremon’s The
Island of the Dead won the 2004 PEN USA Award for Literary
Translation, and she has received translation grants from the
Association Beaumarchais and French Centre du Livre. She is the
founder and editor of La Presse, a small press dedicated to
experimental French poetry translated by English-language poets.
Writer-in-Residence at the Beinecke Library at Yale for the 2007-08
year, she is on the faculty at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and lives in
Washington D.C., Iowa City, and Paris.
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