Geoffrey Brock

Geoffrey Brock is an American poet, translator, and editor. The author of three books of poetry ("Weighing Light," "Voices Bright Flags," and "After"), his poems have appeared in journals and anthologies including Poetry, Yale Review, Paris Review, and Best American Poetry. His awards include a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Cullman Center Fellowship from the New York Public Library.

Brock edited and introduced "The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Italian Poetry," and his prizewinning translations include Cesare Pavese's "Disaffections" (winner of the PEN Center USA Translation Award and the MLA's Lois Roth Award), Umberto Eco's "The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana" (winner of the American Translators Association's Lewis Galantiere Award and a finalist for ALTA's National Translation Award), Italo Calvino's "Six Memos for the Next Millennium" (a finalist for the PEN Center USA Translation Award), Giovanni Pascoli's "Last Dream" (winner of the Academy of American Poets' Raiziss/de Palchi Book Award), and Giuseppe Ungaretti's "Allegria" (winner of ALTA's National Translation Award for Poetry and the Joseph Tusiani Italian Translation Prize). He has also translated books by Antonia Arslan, Marion Fayolle, Roberto Calasso, and Chantal Montellier.

He is a Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Arkansas, where he teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing and Translation.