Author's Bio:
Christine Guinard is a French poet whose family fled Spain during La Retirada, when half a million people escaped Franco’s army after the fall of Barcelona in 1939. This history continues to have a profound impact on Guinard’s work. A translator as well as a poet, musician and filmmaker, she published the Journal of a Catalan Refugee in 2012. She has published seven poetry collections, and a new one, White Song, is forthcoming in June (Unicité). An earlier collection, Sténopé (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). She lives in Brussels, and teaches at the École Européenne Lille Métropole.
Translator's Bio:
Susanna Lang divides her time between Chicago and Uzes, France. Her translation of My Forests by Helene Dorion is now available from *Hug Press, and her fourth full-length collection of poems, This Spangled Dark, is forthcoming from Cornerstone Press. Her most recent chapbook, Like This, was released in 2023, along with her translations of poems by Souad Labbize, My Soul Has No Corners. A new collection of Souad Labbize's poems, Unfasten the Silk of Your Silence, was published in 2025 by Editions des Lisieres. Her poems, translations and reviews have appeared in The Common, Asymptote, Tupelo Quarterly, American Life in Poetry, Rhino Reviews, Mayday and The Slowdown. Her translations of poetry by Yves Bonnefoy include Words in Stone and The Origin of Language, and she is now working with Helene Dorion and Paola Pigani on new translations. More information available at www.susannalang.com.