Geoffrey
Brock, born in Atlanta in 1964, is an American poet, translator, editor, and professor.
He is the author of two previous collections of poems, Weighing Light
and Voices Bright Flags; the editor of The FSG Book of Twentieth-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, and
he has translated authors including Umberto Eco, Roberto Calasso, Italo
Calvino, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Giovanni Pascoli, Patrizia Cavalli, and Cesare Pavese.
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 Raiziss/de Palchi Book Prize, the MLA's Lois
Roth Award, the PEN Center USA Translation Prize, the ATA's Lewis
Galantiè re Translation Award, and Poetry magazine's John Frederick Nims
Prize. He holds an MFA in Poetry from the University of Florida and a PhD in
Comparative Literature from the University of Pennsylvania. Since 2006 he has
taught in the University of Arkansas's Program in Creative Writing &
Translation, where he is a Distinguished Professor of English and the founding
editor of The Arkansas International. He currently divides his time
between Arkansas and Montreal.
