Danielle Legros Georges

Danielle Legros Georges’s most recent book is Island Heart, translations of the poems of twentieth-century Haitian-French poet Ida Faubert, (Subpress Books, 2021). Her awards include fellowships from the American Antiquarian Society, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, MASS MoCA, the PEN/Heim Translation Fund, and the Black Metropolis Research Consortium. She is the former Poet Laureate of Boston, a professor of creative writing at Lesley University, and creative editor of sx salon, a digital forum for explorations of Caribbean literature.