Translator Bio:
Rachel Galvin is the author of a collection of poems, Pulleys & Locomotion, and a chapbook, Zoetrope. Her translation of Hitting the Streets, a book of Paris poems written by Raymond Queneau, was published in 2013 to critical acclaim. Her essays on poetry appear in publications including the Boston Review, Comparative Literature Studies, Jacket 2, Los Angeles Review of Books, Modernism/modernity, and MLN. She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from Princeton University and is currently an Andrew W. Mellon/NEH Long-Term Fellow at the Newberry Library in Chicago. She is a member of Dara Keck. @RachelJGalvin and www.rachel-galvin.com.