Carmen Bugan

Carmen Bugan, George Orwell Prize Fellow, is the author of six poetry collections, among which is Lilies from America (a PBS Special Commendation). Her memoir, Burying the Typewriter, winner of the Breadloaf Nonfiction Prize, finalist in the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and the George Orwell Prize for Political Writing, was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week, and is now out in the Picador Collection as a “modern classic.” Bugan's monograph on Seamus Heaney and East European Poetry in Translation has received wide recognition. Her book, Poetry and the Language of Oppression (Oxford University Press, 2021), was named “an essential book for writers” by Poets & Writers; her book of poems, Time Being, was praised by the Irish Times poetry editor for its "disciplined precision." In her latest poetry Collection, Tristia, “Bugan deliberately echoes the eruptive and epiphanic moment in Yeats.” Bugan was a Creative Arts Fellow in Literature at Wolfson College, Oxford University, a Hawthornden Fellow, and a recipient of Arts Council England Individual Artist Grant. She has a doctorate in English literature from Balliol College, Oxford, UK, and currently teaches at the Gotham Writers Workshop in Manhattan and at the Poetry School in London.