Geoffrey Brock

Discipline: Poetry

Based In: Fayetteville, AK

Year at Millay: 2001

Awards/Honors: Award Winner, National Translation Award in Poetry, American Literary Translators Association, Tucson, AZ (2021); Prize Winner, The Raiziss/de Palchi Translation Award, The New York Community Trust, New York, NY (2020); Fellow, Translation Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, DC (2012); Fellow, Italian Literature, Guggenheim Fellowship, The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, New York, NY (2005); Fellow, MacDowell, Peterborough, NH (2001); Fellow, The Raiziss/de Palchi Translation Award Fellowship, The New York Community Trust, New York, NY (1999).

Website: https://geoffreybrock.com

Geoffrey Brock is an American poet and translator. He is the author of three books of poems (Weighing LightVoices Bright Flags, and After), the editor of The FSG Book of 20th-Century Italian Poetry, and the translator of various books of poetry, prose, and comics, mostly from Italian. His poems have appeared in journals including Poetry magazine, Paris Review, Copper Nickel, Yale Review, and Best American Poetry. His awards include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Academy of American Poets. His translations have received ALTA’s National Translation Award for Poetry, the Academy of American Poets’ Raiziss/de Palchi Book Prize, the MLA’s Lois Roth Award, the PEN Center USA Translation Prize, the ATA’s Lewis Galantière Translation Award, and Poetry magazine’s John Frederick Nims Prize. Since 2006 he has taught in the University of Arkansas’s Program in Creative Writing & Translation, where he was the founding editor of The Arkansas International. He lives with his wife, the novelist Padma Viswanathan, in Fayetteville, Arkansas.