CAROLYN FORCHÉ is an American poet, translator, and memoirist. Her books of poetry are Otherwhere: New and Selected Poems, 1976-2026 (Scribner), In the Lateness of the World: Poems, Blue Hour: Poems, Zanj Istwa a, The Country Between Us, ak Gathering the Tribes. Li se tou otè Sa Ou Te Tande a Se Verite: Yon Memwa Temwayaj ak Rezistans. In 2013, Forché 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. She is a professor at Georgetown University and lives in Maryland with her husband, photographer Harry Mattison.
