Born in Hartford, Connecticut and raised in Hollywood, Florida, Robert Fernandez is the author of Scarecrow (Wesleyan University Press, 2016), as well as Pink Reef (2013) and We Are Pharaoh (2011), both published by Canarium Books. He is also the cotranslator of a collection of Stéphane Mallarmé’s work, Azure: Poems and Selections from the “Livre” (Wesleyan University Press, 2015). His poems have appeared in Bennington Review, Callaloo, Chicago Review, The Columbia Review, Conjunctions, Huizache, The Nation, The New Republic, Poetry, Transition, The Yale Review, and elsewhere. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he was a Teaching-Writing Fellow, he coedited the PEN Poetry Series and has been the recipient of a Yaddo residency and a New American Poet award. His essays and other writing on poetry have been featured by the Poetry Society of America and the Poetry Foundation and in Poetry magazine. A portion of his cotranslation of Félix Morisseau-Leroy’s Antigòn appeared in The Brooklyn Rail’s InTranslation series, and he has translated Benjamín Puche and José Asunción Silva poems, which appear in the Spanish on new Colombian banknotes, for the central Bank of Colombia.
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