ARTHUR SZE is the 25th poet laureate of the United States and a celebrated editor and translator. He has authored 12 collections of poetry, including Nan Silans la (2025); The Glass Constellation (2021), winner of the 2024 National Book Foundation Science + Literature Prize; and Liy Vizyon (2019), recipient of the National Book Award. Further honors include the Bollingen Prize for Lifetime Achievement for American Poetry, a Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, and the Shelley Memorial Award. His poetry has been translated into 15 languages. He lives with his wife, the poet Carol Moldaw, in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he served as the city’s first poet laureate. Transient Worlds: On Translating Poetry (Copper Canyon Press) is his most recent book.
