Rachel Galvin is a poet, translator, and scholar. Her books include Elevated Threat Level, a finalist for the National Poetry Series; Pulleys & Locomotion; Raymond Queneau’s Hitting the Streets, winner of the 2013 Scott Moncrieff Prize for translation; Decals: Complete Early Poetry of Oliverio Girondo (translated with Harris Feinsod), named finalist for the National Translation Award; and News of War: Civilian Poetry 1936-1945. Her translation of Alejandro Albarrán Polanco’s Cowboy & Other Poems will be published by Ugly Duckling Presse in December 2019. Galvin is a co-founder of Outranspo, an international creative translation collective. She is associate professor of English and Comparative Literature and associate director of Creative Writing at the University of Chicago.
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