Conor Bracken

PhD, Columbia University; BA, Williams College

A poet and translator of francophone poetry, Conor is the author of Henry Kissinger, Mon Amour (Bull City Press) and The Enemy of My Enemy is Me (Diode Editions), and the translator of Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine's Scorpionic Sun (CSU Poetry Center) and Jean D'Amérique's No Way in the Skin Without This Bloody Embrace (Ugly Duckling Presse). His work has earned support from Bread Loaf, Cornell’s Institute for Comparative Modernities, the Frost Place, Inprint, and the Sewanee Writers' Conference, and can be found in places like BOMB, Gulf Coast, jubilat, The New Yorker, Ploughshares, Sixth Finch, and West Branch. He lives in Cleveland Heights with his wife, daughter, and dog.