Rachel Galvin is a literary translator and the author of the poetry collections Pulleys & Locomotion and Elevated Threat Level (Green Lantern Press, 2018), as well as a a work of criticism, News of War: Civilian Poetry 1936–1945. Her translation of Raymond Queneau’s Hitting the Streets received the 2014 Scott Moncrieff Prize for French Translation and was named a best poetry book of the year by the Boston Globe. In addition, she is cotranslator of Decals: Complete Early Poetry of Oliverio Girondo (Open Letter Press, 2018). Galvin is an assistant professor of English at the University of Chicago.
Photograph by Nicholas Barberio.
WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:
- Letter Spoken in Wind, poetry, in Poems of the Week: 2018–2019