Nancy Naomi Carlson has received a literature translation fellowship from the NEA, as well as grants from the Maryland Arts Council and the Arts & Humanities Council of Montgomery County. The Nomads, My Brothers, Go Out to Drink from the Big Dipper: Poems of Abdourahman Waberi is forthcoming from Seagull Books (distributed by the University of Chicago Press). Author of three prize-winning titles, as well as Stone Lyre: Poems of René Char, her translations and non-translated work have appeared in Poetry and Prairie Schooner, and are forthcoming in The Georgia Review. She is an associate editor for Tupelo Press.