Diana Thow holds an MFA in literary translation from the University of Iowa. Her co-translation of Elisa Biagini's The Guest in the Wood (Chelsea Editions, 2013) won the Best Translated Book Award for Poetry in 2014, and her co-translation of Amelia Rosselli’s long poem Impromptu is forthcoming in a trilingual edition with Guernica Editions this spring. She lives in Berkeley and is pursuing a PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley.