C. Francis Fisher received her MFA in poetry from Columbia University. Her work has appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, The Yale Review, and The Los Angeles Review of Books, among others. Her poem, "Self-Portrait at 25" was selected for the 2021 Academy of American Poets Prize and “Hotel Room in Sfakia” was a finalist for the James Hearst Poetry Award in 2024. She has been supported by fellowships from Brooklyn Poets and the Vermont Studio Center. She curates Colloquy, an event series that provides a forum for translators to engage with live audiences in an exploration of the art of translation. Her manuscript, Both Horse and Jockey was a finalist for the Lexi Rudnitsky prize with Persea Books and In the Glittering Maw: Selected Poems of Joyce Mansour will appear with World Poetry in May 2024.