Nancy Naomi Carlson won the 2022 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize. Shortlisted for the Best Translated Book Award and the Sarah Maguire Translation Prize, she was longlisted for the National Translation Award. Author of 5 titles and translator of eleven others, her poetry and translations have been noted in the New York Times. A recipient of grants from the NEA and the Albertine Foundation, she was decorated by the French government with the Academic Palms. Carlson is the Translations Editor for On the Seawall and the translator of When We Only Have the Earth (University of Nebraska Press: African Poetry Book Series, 2025), by Djiboutian writer Abdourahman A. Waberi.