Annie Kantar

Annie Kantar’s book of poems, Means to Be Lucky, is forthcoming June 2023 with Poets & Traitors Press. Her work has appeared in The American Literary Review, Barrow Street, Bennington Review, Birmingham Review, Literary Imagination, On the Seawall, Plume  Anthology 9, Poetry Daily, Poetry International, Rattle, Smartish Pace, Tikkun, Verse Daily, and elsewhere. Her translation from the Hebrew of With This Night, the final collection of poetry that Leah Goldberg published during her lifetime, appeared with University of Texas Press (2011), and was shortlisted for the ALTA Translation Prize. The recipient of an Academy of American Poets Prize and Fulbright Scholarship, she recently published her literary translation of The Book of Job (Koren 2021).