Danielle Legros Georges

Danielle Legros Georges is the author of The Dear Remote Nearness of You (2016) and translator of Island Heart (2021), a collection of poems of Haitian-French writer Ida Faubert, among other titles. Her poems have been widely published, anthologized, and included in international artistic commissions and collaborations. In 2014, Legros Georges was named Boston’s poet laureate. She is a professor emeritus of creative writing at Lesley University.