Forrest Gander was born in Barstow, California and grew up in Virginia.
Gander’s books include Eye Against Eye, A Faithful Existence, and most recently, As a Friend.
His translations include No Shelter: Selected Poems of Pura Lopez Colome (Graywolf), and (with Kent Johnson) two books by Jaime Saenz, The Night and Immanent Visitor, which was a finalist for the 2003 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation. Gander’s translations of Coral Bracho’s poems, Firefly Under the Tongue, will be published in spring 2008.
Gander lives in Rhode Island with poet C.D. Wright and their son. As
Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Brown University, he
teaches courses on phenomenology and poetics, Asian-American poetries,
and translation.
Gander was a participant in the 2007 PEN World Voices Festival.
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