About

E.C. Belli is a bilingual poet and translator. She is the author of A Sleep That Is Not Our Sleep, winner of the 2020 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry. The book was selected by Cathy Park Hong and released by Anhinga Press (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 (2019). Her translation of I, Little Asylum, a short novel by Emmanuelle Guattari, was published by Semiotext(e) for the 2014 Whitney Biennial, and The Nothing Bird: Selected Poems by Pierre Peuchmaurd was released by Oberlin College Press (2013). She is the recipient of a Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans and her work is featured in The Best American Poetry, VERSE, AGNI, Guernica, Gulf Coast, and FIELD, among others. It has also been featured up at Poem-A-Day and Verse Daily. Work in French has appeared in Europe: revue littéraire mensuelle and PO&SIE (France).