Washington Writers' Publishing House

Nancy Carlson

Nancy Naomi Carlson’s translation of Khal Torabully’s Cargo Hold of Stars: Coolitude (Seagull Books, 2021) won the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize and is shortlisted for the Sarah Maguire Prize (winner TBD). A poet and essayist, she has authored twelve titles (eight translated), including An Infusion of Violets (Seagull Books, 2019), her second full-length poetry collection, which was named “New & Noteworthy” by The New York Times. Her first poetry collection, Kings Highway, was published by WWPH. Piano in the Dark was published by Seagull Books in 2023. A recipient of two translation grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, her work has appeared in APR, Poetry, Paris Review, the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, The Georgia Review, and The Writer’s Chronicle. She’s the Translations Editor for On the Seawall.