Brian Swann

Now Professor of Humanities at The Cooper Union in New York City, Brian Swann is the author of a number of books of poetry, fiction, children’s books and poetry in translation, and has edited volumes on Native American literature. His edited books include Smoothing the Ground: Essays on Native American Literature (University of California Press), On the Translation of Native American Literatures (Smithsonian Institution Press), and Coming to Light: Contemporary Translations of the Native Literatures of North America (Random House). Voices from Four Directions: Contemporary Translations of the Native Literatures of North America; Algonquian Spirit: Translations of the Algonquian Literatures of North America; Sky Loom: Native American Myth, Story, Song, are all from the University of Nebraska Press. He was founder and series editor of “The Smithsonian Series of Studies in Native American Literatures,” and is founder and series editor of the University of Nebraska Press “Native Literatures of the Americas,” which in 2017 became “Native Literatures of the Americas and Indigenous World Literatures.”