Nancy Naomi Carlson won the 2022 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize. Author of fifteen titles (ten translated), her poetry and translation books have been reviewed in The New York Times. A recipient of two NEA translation grants, she’s the Translations Editor for On the Seawall. Piano in the Dark (Seagull Books, 2023), a “Must-Read Editor’s Choice” from Poetry Daily, is her third full-length collection. Her translation of Djiboutian writer Abdourahman Waberi’s When We Only Have the Earth (University of Nebraska Press: African Poetry Book Series) arrives March, 2025.
