Nancy Naomi Carlson won the 2022 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize and was shortlisted for the Best Translated Book Award and the Sarah Maguire Translation Prize. She was longlisted twice for the National Translation Award. Author of 16 titles (11 translated), her poetry and translations have been noted in the New York Times. A recipient of two translation grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, an Albertine Fund translation grant, and decorated by the French government with the Academic Palms, Carlson is the translations editor for “On the Seawall” and the Poet Laureate for the Kensington Day of the Book Festival. She will be presenting “When We Only Have the Earth (African Poetry Book).”