Nancy Naomi Carlson
https://www.nancynaomicarlson.com/
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Nancy Naomi Carlson is a poet, translator, essayist and editor. She is the author of Piano in the Dark (2023), An Infusion of Violets (2019), and Kings Highway (1997), as well as the chapbook Complications of the Heart (2003), winner of the 2002 Robert Philips Poetry Chapbook Prize. Carlson's translations include When We Only Have the Earth by Abdourahman A. Waberi (2025), Solio by Samira Negrouche (2024), and Cargo Hold of Stars: Coolitude by Khal Torabully (2021), winner of the 2022 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize.
Carlson is Translations Editor for On the Seawall, and was decorated by the French government with the Academic Palms.