CAROLYN FORCHÉ is an American poet, editor, translator, activist, and a professor at Georgetown University. Her books of poetry are In the Lateness of the World, Blue Hour, The Angel of History, The Country Between Us, y Gathering the Tribes. In 2013, she received the Academy of American Poets Fellowship given for distinguished poetic achievement. In 2017, she became one of the first two poets to receive the Windham-Campbell Prize.