E.C. Belli is a bilingual poet and translator. Her second book, A Sleep That Is Not Our Sleep, is winner of the 2020 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry. Selected by Cathy Park Hong, it was recently released with Anhinga Press (Jan. 2022). Her debut collection of poems, Objects of Hunger, is winner of the Crab Orchard Poetry Series First Book Award and appeared with Southern Illinois University Press in 2019. Her translation of I, Little Asylum, a short novel by Emmanuelle Guattari, was released by Semiotext(e) for the 2014 Whitney Biennial, and The Nothing Bird, her translation of some selected poems by Pierre Peuchmaurd, appeared with Oberlin College Press (Fall 2013). She is the recipient of a 2010 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans and her work has appeared in VERSE, AGNI, Colorado Review, Guernica, Gulf Coast, The Antioch Review, and FIELD, among others. Work in French has appeared in Europe: revue littéraire mensuelle and PO&SIE (France).
“Happiness is a riot of endless / limbs.” – Objects of Hunger