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Christine Guinard has published seven poetry collections, most recently Ils passent et nous pensent (Unicité, 2023) and Vous étiez un monde (Gallimard, 2023). Sténopé (Unicité, 2019) won the Prix de Poésie from the city of Rambouillet/Association Arts et Lettres, and was a finalist for the Grand Prix de Poésie from the Société des Gens de Lettres (2020). A translator as well as a musician and filmmaker, she lives in Paris and Brussels, and teaches French and classical languages at the École Européenne Lille Métropole. (updated 10/2025)

Susanna Lang’s translations of poetry include Words in Stone by Yves Bonnefoy (University of Massachusetts Press, 1976), Baalbek by Nohad Salameh (L’Atelier du Grand Tétras, 2021), and Unfasten the silk of your silence by Souad Labbize (Éditions des Lisières, 2025). My Forests by Hélène Dorion, in Lang’s translation, is forthcoming from Book*Hug Press. Her translations have appeared or are forthcoming in Asymptote, Tupelo Quarterly, AGNI, The Common, and Mayday, among other journals. Winner of the Marvin Bell Memorial Poetry Prize awarded by December, her fourth full-length collection of poems, This Spangled Dark, is forthcoming from Cornerstone Press. More at susannalang.com. (updated 10/2025)