Poetry's Geographies

Zoe Skoulding's most recent collections of poetry are A Marginal Sea (Carcanet, 2022) and A Revolutionary Calendar (Shearsman 2020). Her previous collections (published by Seren Books) include The Mirror Trade (2004); Remains of a Future City (2008), shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year; The Museum of Disappearing Sounds (2013), shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry; and Footnotes to Water (2019), which was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and won the Wales Book of the Year Poetry Award 2020. She received the Cholmondeley Award in 2018. Her poetry has been translated into over 30 languages, and is included in Nuestra tierra de nadie. Antologia de la poesia galesa contemporanea, (Mexico: La Otra Ediciones, 2015 / Bogota: Ladrones del Tiempo, 2018), translated and edited by Victor Rodriguez Nunez and Katherine M. Hedeen. She is the translator (from French) of Jean Portante's In Reality: Selected Poems (Seren, 2013). Her work as a critic includes Contemporary Women's Poetry and Urban Space: Experimental Cities (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), and Poetry &Listening: The Noise of Lyric (Liverpool University Press, 2020). She lives in Wales on Ynys Mon and is Professor of Poetry and Creative Writing at Bangor University.



Katherine M. Hedeen is a translator and essayist. A specialist in Latin American poetry, she has translated some of the most respected voices from the region. Her publications include book-length collections by Jorgenrique Adoum, Juan Banuelos, Juan Calzadilla, Antonio Gamoneda, Fina Garcia Marruz, Juan Gelman, Fayad Jamis, Raul Gomez Jattin, Hugo Mujica, Jose Emilio Pacheco, and Victor Rodriguez Nunez, among many others. Her work has been a finalist for both the Best Translated Book Award and the National Translation Award. She is a recipient of two NEA Translation Grants in the US and a PEN Translates award in the UK. She is a Managing Editor for Action Books. She resides in Ohio, where she is Professor of Spanish at Kenyon College.