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, The Angel of History, The Country Between Us, and Gathering the Tribes. She is also the author of What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance. 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.
