Erín Moure

Erín Moure has published over fifty books, including poetry, essays, memoir, and translations/co-translations from French, Spanish, Galician, Portuguese, Portunhol, and Ukrainian into English, and from English and Galician into French. Recent translations include: you by Chantal Neveu, from French to English; So-Lair Storm by Andrés Ajens, from Spanish to English; The Poem Thinks Itself Out in Final Lines by Chus Pato, from Galician to English; Chair de Léviathan by Chus Pato, from Galician to French. Her most recent book in English is Theophylline: A Poetic Migration via the modernisms of Rukeyser, Bishop, and Grimké (Anansi, 2023). Moure holds two honorary doctorates from universities in Canada and Spain, was a 2017 Creative Fellow at Harvard’s Woodberry Poetry Room, and the 2019 International Translator in Residence at Queen’s College, Oxford. nslator. Her translation of Chantal Neveu’s This Radiant Life (2020) won the 2021 Governor General’s Literary Award for Translation from French and the Nelson Ball Prize. Moure lives in Montréal.