Yvette Siegert

Yvette Siegert is a poet and literary translator of Latin American and Peninsular literatures. Her translations include Alejandra Pizarnik’s Diana’s Tree and The Most Foreign Country (each from UDP). Her work has received recognition from the PEN American Center, the New York State Council of the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts, and received the Best Translated Book Award for poetry in 2017. She has edited for The New Yorker and the United Nations. Siegert is currently a doctoral candidate in comparative literature at the University of Oxford.