Annmarie Drury

Annmarie Drury is Professor of English at Queens College, City University of New York, where she teaches workshops in literary translation in the MFA Program in Creative Writing and Literary Translation, as well as undergraduate and graduate courses in Victorian literature. She is the translator and editor of Stray Truths (Michigan State University Press, 2015), a selection of Euphrase Kezilahabi’s poetry. She is also editor of The Imaginative Vision of Abdilatif Abdalla’s ‘Voice of Agony’ (University of Michigan Press, 2024) and the author of Translation as Transformation in Victorian Poetry (Cambridge University Press, 2015), as well as of many articles and essays about Swahili poetry and 19th-century British literature. Many of her own poems have appeared in The Paris Review, Raritan, and elsewhere. As part of an international collective, she translates poetry from 19th-century Lamu, on the present-day coast of Kenya.