Nancy Naomi Carlson
Nancy Naomi Carlson
Bio: Nancy Naomi Carlson is a poet, translator, essayist. Carlson’s translation of Khal Torabully’s Cargo Hold of Stars: Coolitude (Seagull, 2021) won the 2022 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize, and she has twice received literature translation fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. Her second poetry collection, An Infusion of Violets (Seagull, 2021), was called ‘new & noteworthy’ by the New York Times.