Randall Couch edited and translated Madwomen: The Locas mujeres Poems of Gabriela Mistral (Chicago, 2008) which won the biennial Popescu Prize for Poetry Translation (Poetry Society, UK) and was one of two finalists for the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation. His own poems and criticism have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, and he has twice been awarded fellowships by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. He serves on the professional staff at Penn and teaches poetry and poetics at Arcadia University.