Cole Swensen is the author of twenty books of poetry, most recently And And And (Shearsman Books, 2023) which was longlisted for the 2024 Griffin Poetry Prize, Art in Time (Nightboat Books, 2021), and a volume of critical essays, Noise that Stays Noise (U. of Michigan Press, 2011). A former Guggenheim Fellow, she co-edited the Norton anthology American Hybrid. Her work has won the Iowa Poetry Prize, the SF State Poetry Center Book Award, the National Poetry Series, and the PEN USA Award in translation and has been a finalist for both the National Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Award. She taught for ten years on the permanent faculty of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and twelve years in the Literary Arts Department at Brown University. A translator of poetry and art criticism from French, she divides her time between France and the US.

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