Brian Sneeden is a poet, translator, and editor based in Southern Scotland. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Poetry, Poetry Review, and other magazines, and has received the Iowa Review Award in Poetry, the Gulf Coast Barthelme Prize, and the Indiana Review 1/2K Prize. Translations of his poetry have been published internationally in Arabic, Italian, Modern Greek, and Serbian. Last City, his debut collection, appeared in the 2018 Carnegie Mellon Poetry Series. His translations of poetry from the Modern Greek have received an NEA Literature Translation Fellowship, the World Literature Today Translation Award for Poetry, the Constantinides Memorial Translation Prize, a PEN/Heim Translation Grant, and other recognitions. He is the translator of four collections of poetry, including Phoebe Giannisi's Cicada (New Directions, 2022), shortlisted for the National Translation Award in Poetry, and most recently, GOATSONG, forthcoming 2025 from Fitzcarraldo Editions. He is a senior lecturer in creative writing and publishing at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Contact: B.Sneeden@mmu.ac.uk