Brian Sneeden is the author of Last City (Carnegie Mellon, 2018). His poetry and translations have received an Iowa Review Award in Poetry, an NEA Literature Fellowship for Translation, a World Literature Today Translation Prize in Poetry, a Constantinides Memorial Translation Prize, a PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant, and other recognitions. His translation of Phoebe Giannisi’s Homerica (World Poetry Books, 2017) was selected by Anne Carson as a favorite book of 2017, and his translation of Giannisi’s collection Cicada was published by New Directions in 2022. He is a lecturer in English at Manchester Metropolitan University.