Brian Sneeden is an award-winning poet and Modern Greek translator from the American South living in Scotland. He writes about language and labyrinths.

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. His translation of Phoebe Giannisi’s Homerica (World Poetry Books, 2017) was selected by Anne Carson as a favorite book of 2017, and his translation of Giannisi’s collection Cicada (New Directions, 2022) was shortlisted for the National Translation Award in Poetry. His most recent translation, Giannisi's Chimera, was published by New Directions in 2024. He is a senior lecturer in creative writing and publishing at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Contact: B.Sneeden@mmu.ac.uk