BIO:

Sidney Wade has published five collections of poems, the most recent of which is Stroke, Persea Books, 2008. Her poems and translations have appeared in a wide variety of journals, including Poetry, The New Yorker, Paris Review, The New Republic, among many others. She translates the poems of Melih Cevdet Anday, Yahya Kemal, and several others, from the Turkish. She recently served as President of the AWP, the Association for Writers and Writing Programs, and has taught at the University of Florida in the Creative Writing Program since 1993. She is the poetry editor of the literary journal Subtropics and was recently elected Secretary/Treasurer of the American Literary Translators’ Association, ALTA.