Rachel Galvin

Rachel Galvin is a poet, translator, and scholar. She has three new books coming out in 2018: a collection of poems, Elevated Threat Level, which was a finalist for the National Poetry Series and Alice James Books’ Kinereth Gensler Award; a work of criticism, News of War: Civilian Poetry 1936–1945 (Oxford UP); and Decals: Complete Early Poetry of Oliverio Girondo, co-translated from the Spanish with Harris Feinsod. Her other books include Pulleys & Locomotion (poems); Auden at Work, a coedited essay collection; and Hitting the Streets, a translation from the French of Raymond Queneau, which won the Scott Moncrieff Prize. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature.