E.C. Belli

E.C. Belli is a bilingual poet and translator. Her second book, A Sleep That Is Not Our Sleep, is winner of the 2020 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry, selected by Cathy Park Hong (Anhinga Press, 2022). Her debut collection of poems, Objects of Hunger, is winner of the Crab Orchard Poetry Series First Book Award (Southern Illinois University Press, 2019). She is the translator for I, Little Asylum, a short novel by Emmanuelle Guattari (Semiotext(e), 2014) and The Nothing Bird: Selected Poems by Pierre Peuchmaurd (Oberlin College Press, 2013). She is the recipient of a 2010 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans and her work in French has appeared in Europe: revue littéraire mensuelle and PO&SIE (France), among others.