Hélène Cardona is an award-winning poet, literary translator, actor, and author of Dreaming My Animal Selves (Salmon Poetry), The Astonished Universe (Red Hen Press), and Ce que nous portons (Éditions du Cygne), her translation of Dorianne Laux. Two books are forthcoming: Life in Suspension (Salmon Poetry) and Beyond Elsewhere (White Pine Press, 2016), her translation of Gabriel Arnou-Laujeac. She holds a Master’s in American Literature from the Sorbonne, taught at Hamilton College and LMU, and received fellowships from the Goethe-Institut & Universidad Internacional de Andalucía. She co-edits Dublin Poetry Review, Levure Littéraire, and Fulcrum: An Anthology of Poetry and Aesthetics.