Forrest Gander

Contemporary American poet, translator from Spanish, essayist and novelist Forrest Gander (1956) was born in the Mojave Desert and grew up in Virginia. Gander’s book Core Samples from the World, a meditation on the ways we are revised and translated in encounters with the foreign, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. His latest book of poems, Be With, was recently featured in a rhapsodic critical appraisal in The New Yorker and it’s currently longlisted for the National Book Award for Poetry 2018.