Carolyne Wright

Carolyne Wright is the author of nine books of poetry, including Mania Klepto: The Book of Eulene (2011); A Change of Maps (2006), nominated for a Los Angeles Times Book Prize and a finalist for an Idaho Prize and Alice Fay di Castagnola Award; and Seasons of Mangoes & Brainfire (2005), winner of a Blue Lynx Prize and an American Book Award. Fluent in Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and Bengali, Wright has published four books of poetry in translation. Her translation of Chilean poet Jorge Teillier, In Order to Talk with the Dead (1993), won a National Translation Award. Her translations from Bengali include Majestic Nights: Love Poems of Bengali Women (2008) and Another Spring, Darkness: Selected Poems of Anuradha Mahapatra (1996).