Forrest Gander

Forrest Gander is a writer and translator with degrees in geology and literature. Amonghis many books are Be With, winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Twice Alive:An Ecology of Intimacies, and his novel The Trace. Gander's translations include It MustBe a Misunderstanding by Coral Bracho, Spectacle & Pigsty (winner of the Best TranslatedBook Award) by Kiwao Nomura (translated with Kyoko Yoshida), and Then Come Back:The Lost Neruda Poems, a collection of previously unpublished and untranslated poems byPablo Neruda. He has been awarded grants from the Library of Congress, the Solomon R.Guggenheim Foundation, the George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation,the Whiting Foundation, and United States Artists. Gander was born in the MojaveDesert and lives in Northern California.