Heather Green: Adventures in Intertext

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Heather Green’s poetry collection No Other Rome (2021) was published in the Akron Poetry Series. Her poems have appeared in AGNI, Bennington Review, the New Yorker, and elsewhere. She is the translator of Tristan Tzara’s Noontimes Won (Octopus Books, 2018) and Speaking Alone. Her translations of Tzara’s work have appeared in Guernica, Ploughshares, and several anthologies, including In the Shape of a Human Body I Am Visiting the Earth from McSweeney’s Books. Her recent writing on poetry and translation appears in Hopscotch Translation, Poetry Daily, where she serves on the editorial board, Asymptote, where she is the Visual Editor, and the Poetry Foundation’s Harriet Books, where she served as a reviewer in 2021. Green served as a longlist judge for the NBCC’s inaugural Barrios Prize for a book in translation and a juror for the 2023 National Translation Award in poetry.

Green holds an MA in literature from the University of Nebraska and an MFA in creative writing (poetry) from Boston University. She works as an Assistant Professor in the School of Art at George Mason University and a faculty member of Cedar Crest's Pan-European MFA program.