Rachel Galvin

Rachel Galvin is a poet, translator, and scholar. Her newest poetry collection, Uterotopia, was published by Persea Books in January 2023. She is the author of Elevated Threat Level, a finalist for the National Poetry Series, and Pulleys & Locomotion. She translated Raymond Queneau's Hitting the Streets, which won the Scott Moncrieff Prize, and co-translated Oliverio Girondo’s Decals: Complete Early Poetry, a National Translation Award finalist. Her writing appears in Best American Experimental Writing 2020, Best American Poetry 2020, Bennington Review, Boston Review, Colorado Review, Fence, Gulf Coast, McSweeney’s, The Nation, The New Yorker, Ploughshares, and Poetry. She is a co-founder of Outranspo, an international creative translation collective (outranspo.com). Rachel is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago, where she teaches in the Creative Writing Program and is the faculty lead for Translation Studies. 

El libro más reciente de Rachel Galvin, Elevated Threat Level, fue finalista de la Serie Nacional de Poesía. También es autora de Pulleys & Locomotion (poems) y News of War: Civilian Poetry 1936–1945, y traductora del libro de Raymond Queneau Hitting the Streets, que ganó el premio Scott Moncrieff. Decals: Complete Early Poetry of Oliverio Girondo, traducido con Harris Feinsod, está próximo a publicarse. Galvin es cofundadora de Outranspo, un colectivo internacional de traducción creativa, y profesora asistente en la Universidad de Chicago.