A. Scott Britton

A. Scott Britton is an American poet who has been writing for more than twenty years. He first focused on his own original poetry, then a fascination with foreign languages that stretched back to childhood led him to a serious study of the intricacies of translation. He became a translator of poetry, first producing radical new translations of Dante and the Hippocratic Oath, then translating and publishing works by Ramón del Valle-Inclán, Vicente Huidobro, and José Juan Tablada. A dedicated literary translator, Britton has maintained his passion, too, for linguistics, writing reference books on the Zapotec, Guaraní, Hawaiian, and Catalan languages, all while continuing to write his own original poetry and essays, and publishing them in literary journals around the world. He lives in Washington, DC.