Bio

Alissa Valles is the author of the poetry collections Orphan Fire and Anastylosis as well as the editor and co-translator of Zbigniew Herbert's Collected Poems 1956–1998, Herbert's Collected Prose 1948-1998, and Ryszard Krynicki's Our Life Grows. She has contributed to the anthologies The New European Poets, Scattering the Dark, and Into English: Poems, Translations, Commentaries. A recipient of a Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship and Bess Hokin Prize from Poetry, Valles has worked for the BBC, the Dutch Institute of War Documentation, the Jewish Historical Institute, and La Strada International, and is on the editorial board of the Akron Series in Contemporary Poetics.