Lyn Coffin

Lyn Coffin has published over a dozen books of poetry, including Human Trappings (1980), The Poetry of Wickedness (1981), Crystals of the Unforeseen (1999), and Joseph Brodsky was Joseph Brodsky (2012). Her books of translation include the Anthology of Georgian Poetry (2013), edited by Dodona Kiziria; and White Picture (2011), selected poems by Jiri Orten translated from the Czech. 

Coffin teaches literary fiction in the Continuing and Professional Education Division of the University of Washington. She has taught a Translation Seminar at the Shota Rustaveli Institute in Tbilisi in a cross-cultural visit sponsored by the American Embassy. She has a book-length manuscript of the poetry of Dato Barbakadze, translated by herself and Nato Alhazishvili, and is working on a metrical and rhymed translation of Rustaveli's epic, The Knight in the Panther Skin.