Cole Swensen is the author of twelve books of poetry, the most recent Ours, a finalist for the LA Times Book Award. She is also the co-editor of the 2009 Norton anthology American Hybrid. Her translation of Jean Fremon's Island of the Dead won the 2004 PEN Award in Literary Translation, and she has received grants from the Association Beaumarchais and the French Centre du Livre. A 2006 Guggenheim Fellow, Swensen teaches at the Iowa Writers' Workshop.