Bio

Cyrus Console-Soican is the author of Brief Under Water (Burning Deck, 2008), for which he received a Fund for Poetry award, The Odicy (Omnidawn, 2011), Romanian Notebook (FSG, 2017), and The Wayfarer (Omnidawn, 2024). He holds an M.F.A. degree from the Milton Avery Graduate School of Arts at Bard College and a Ph.D. in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Kansas. Recent poetry has appeared in Brick, Critical Quarterly, Harper’s, The New York Review of Books, and The Paris Review. His translation (with co-translator Paula Console-Soican) of Radu Vancu’s The Rope in Bloom is forthcoming from University of Chicago Press.