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Forrest Gander

Forrest Gander
Forrest Gander was born in the Mojave Desert and lives in California. With degrees in geology and literature, he taught at Harvard University and Brown University. Gander is a translator and the author of many books of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. Besides the Pulitzer Prize, he’s received the Best Translated Book Award and fellowships from the Library of Congress, the Guggenheim, Whiting, and United States Artists Foundations. His new book, Mojave Ghost, is now available from New Directions.


Footnotes All the Way Down: How Russian Poetry Mines the Past to Reveal the Present

Forrest Gander Remembers Two Innovative Moscow Poets, Nina Iskrenko and Alexander Yeremenko
October 1, 2024  By Forrest Gander
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A Poem from Forrest Gander’s Be With, Winner of the Pulitzer Prize

'And into / what do you stumble / but this violet / extinction?'
April 15, 2019  By Forrest Gander
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