Nancy Naomi Carlson is the author of seventeen titles, including twelve translations. Her poetry and translations have been noted in The New York Times. A recipient of two translation grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, an Albertine Fund translation grant, and the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize, and decorated by the French government with the Academic Palms, Carlson is the translations editor for On the Seawall. She recently translated French-Senegalese writer Sylvie Kandé’s Gestuary (Seagull Books, 2026).
